[Hans Tucker (Hans)]

One of those typical office e-mails was circulating around today. Usually it would contain a joke or something to make you smile but this one in particular contain Scientific Facts and one of the so called facts pertained to the Journals of Marie Curie and went along the lines:

Marie Curies research notebooks were exposed to so much radiation that they still can't safely be handled without protection and will remain this way until the year 3511.

So a bit of Googling was in order.

Everyone that knows a bit about science knows the Curies, including her daughter, died from illness as the result of radiation poisoning. The disturbing fact here was that she, and her husband, were exposed to so much radiation that their research journals are hazardous material.