OPINION
A Brief History of Nuclear Weapons and Global Diplomacy (Part II / II)
Just two years later fellow Frenchmen Marie and Pierre Curie identified polonium and radium, coining the term "radio-active". Marie Curie, a dazzling star of science, shone with such brilliance that she died of radio-active poisoning, and her corpse was so "hot" that she had to be buried in a lead-lined coffin. That's dedication, folks!