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She died in 1934 from aplastic anemia brought on by exposure to radiation, including carrying test tubes of radium in her pockets during research & her WWI service in her mobile X-ray units.

Her pioneering work explaining #radioactivity earned her the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with her husband Pierre Curie & with physicist Henri Becquerel. At first, the Committee intended to honour only Pierre & Becquerel, 4/n