Christy Pino, retired after a career in federal service, serves on the steering committee of the Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium. She grew up in a suburb of Pittsburgh and now lives in Erie.

As improbable as this seems when we gaze out upon a broken world, or scrutinise our own chaotic lives, living is the easy ...

Marie Curie worked with radioactive material with her bare hands. More than 100 years later, Sophie Hardach travels to Paris ...

Marie Curie's supportive letter to a scientist with radiation sickness in the 1920s, as awareness of the risks emerged (Credit: Edouard Taufenbach and Bastien Pourtout) ...

Marie eventually became the director of the Red Cross Radiology Service, overseeing the creation of the first military radiation center. Marie died on July 4, 1934, at the age of 66. Doctors believed ...

Tragic end of Marie Curie’s life and radiation that remains On 4 July 1934, Marie Curie died from a rare lethal blood disease because of the exposure to the radioactive elements.

This prolonged exposure ultimately led to her death in 1934 from aplastic anemia, a rare condition linked to radiation where the bone marrow fails to produce sufficient blood cells for your body ...

On the 7th November, Marie Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel prize, ... Marie Curie died from aplastic anemia, which was likely caused by years of radiation exposure.

Marie Curie was a physicist and chemist who became the first woman to win a Nobel prize . ... Marie died of aplastic anaemia, often caused by radiation exposure, in 1934, aged 66.

It’s no surprise then that Marie Curie died of aplastic anemia, likely caused by prolonged exposure to radiation, in 1934. Even her notebooks are still radioactive a century later.