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Polish physicist Marie Curie, discoverer of both radium and polonium, spent much of her adult life studying the radioactive elements and the x-rays they emitted. Not only was radiation the bulk of her life's work, it was the cause of her demise as well: Curie died of Leukemia caused by repeated, unprotected exposure to radiation in 1934.

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