I’ll never see that smile again
Weeks after his death, Marie Curie writes to her husband
Marie and Pierre Curie were partners in life and science, their groundbreaking work on radioactivity reshaping physics and jointly earning them the Nobel Prize in 1903. It was three years after that triumph that tragedy struck: as he crossed a Paris street one rainy morning, Pierre slipped …
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