The black box that held Curie’s coffin was discovered that was not ... Objects like her laboratory notebooks are stored in lead-lined boxes at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris.

Even in death, Marie Curie’s body held a secret: it remained radioactive, requiring a special lead-lined coffin for burial. Marie Curie, a science hero, made groundbreaking discoveries about ...

Specialists were called in to examine the site, and as her coffin was exhumed, they discovered it was lined with 2.5 millimeters of lead. This lining had successfully contained the radiation ...

Her body is also radioactive and was therefore placed in a coffin lined with nearly an inch of lead. The Curie's are buried in France's Panthéon, a mausoleum in Paris which contains the remains ...

Marie Curie’s coffin made of 2.5 millimeters of thick ... Objects like her laboratory notebooks are stored in lead-lined boxes at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. Anyone wishing to use ...