And then, finally, if that wasn't enough which it should've been This is Madame Curie killing herself by discovering Radium, who, although she was a naturalized French citizen, was Polish by birth!
Madame Curie's remains, too, were interred in a lead-lined coffin, keeping the radiation that was the heart of her research, and likely the cause of her death, well-contained.
Madame Curie was the first woman in the world to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and her daughter was the second woman in the world to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
With this practical opportunity, Madame Curie taught her daughter about radiation, so Irene had mastered the most cutting-edge knowledge about this science before going to college.