Why must visitors sign a waiver and wear protective gear to view Marie Curie's manuscripts?

Great woman especially at the era she lived in

Tom, I wish peace were scientific as we would be able to control it but it's not. So it remains that Marie Curie is the only person to have nobel prizes in two scientific fields.

Tom, It is correct because it specifies two Scientific fields . Pauling’s second was for Peace .

What a tragedy such a great woman ever had to die !! Ironically, as smart as she was, she might one day have cured cancer, exactly what killed her !!

I heard somewhere that when introduced to someone they reported " She had a glow about her & " She absolutely Glowed "

the only reason I knew this was the first watch I bought had a radium dial

joymarch016, actually another woman by the name of Judyth Vary Baker did actually discover a cure for cancer in the late 50s and early 60s while working with bacteria phages in mice and rabbits but unfortunatelky big pharma can't make $$ when ppl aren't sick so even though a cure has been available for over 70 years they still need to do more research which is a darn shame that in order to fight most cancers you need to go through a bunch of chemotherapy in order to hopefully find a cure which is why most ppl haven't heard about this treatment for cancer most male mainstream scientists claim Judyth's findings are controversial and not fully supported by most scientists

And that's how Marie Curie died. She was exposed to too much radioactive elements.

Tom, the info above said she won in two scientific fields; he won in two different fields.

But probably wouldn't want to shake hands with her.

I thought this was wrong, I checked. Linus Pauling won a Nobel in chemistry and in peace .

radioactive makes people die dummies