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[–] [email protected] 96 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Just to note: Marie Curie's lab books cannot be handled without protective gear and are stored in lead containment boxes because of all the new chemistry she discovered.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ehh radioactivity is squarely in physics

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Leaving aside that chemical reactions can absolutely produce radiation, when you're on the cutting edge these things get blurry.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago

She did get Nobel prizes in Physics and Chemistry, so you're both right!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

(not nuclear radiation, which is what curie was working with largely)

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