In a piece on the life of Marie Curie, the Polish-French scientist awarded Nobel Prizes in 1903 and 1911 for her seminal work in radioactivity, it was written: “Marie Curie tended to deny the perils of radiation…decades of exposure left her chronically ill and nearly blind from cataracts, and ultimately caused her death at 67, in 1934, from either severe anemia or leukemia. But she never fully acknowledged that her work had ruined her health” [ ].