Fun Fact Series # 295

 Fun Fact # 295

Mother of Radiology

In June of 1890, a young woman was studying inside the polish “Flying University” which contrary to the name was located in a series of basements to avoid persecution for it’s anti-Russian teachings. This would be where Marie Curie would first hone the skills which she would use to discover Plutonium, Radium and develop the first Radiation medical treatments. Today she is remembered for being the first woman to win a Nobel prize, The only person to win two Nobel prizes in different fields (Physics and Chemistry), and inventing the mobile x-ray machine for use in World War 1.

For a long time her home in France was closed to the public because it was so radioactive but in 1989 it was declared safe to enter, opening it as a museum to the public. Her personal notebooks however are still in locked lead-lined cabinets as they are dangerously radioactive. Madam Curie herself is held in a lead lined casket in the French Pantheon, which is a mausoleum for French Heroes.

Marie Curie by Interesting Engineering.