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RE: The man who was struck by the power of a thousand suns - and survived

in #science7 years ago

Interesting story! I'd also like to do a followup on Marie Curie and just how exactly she died from radiation poisoning (Looking at the DNA damage mechanisms in detail that led to cancer)

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Good idea
I've heard that Pierre and Marie Curie suffered surprisingly little radiation damage because they were working in a "lab" so run down that the wind going through it carried most of the radioactive dust away which they would have been exposed to otherwise