Marie Curie died at 66 of radiation related anemia. Not a bad age for the 
times, particularly considering the amount of radiations her body must have 
absorbed during her life.

Didier

lstosk...@cox.net wrote:
>I just finished Bernard Jaffe's history of chemistry book.  The Curies
>spent years in a small building with tons of ore boiling, mixing,
>filtering, etc to get a small bit of radium.  He died (with some
>radiation changes) by getting his head run over by a car.  She died as
>an old lady of whatever.  At the age I suspect most of us are, I
>suspect that something else will get us.
>
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