The lives Marie, her children, Pierre’s father and brother, and the Curies’ friends and colleagues had been shattered when the Curies’ extraordinary partnership came to a sudden and tragic end with the death of Pierre on 19 April 1906.  In a simple, private ceremony attended only by his family and a few close friends, Pierre was interred beside his mother in the Curie family’s plot in Sceaux on the outskirts of Paris, where he grew up. Marie was despondent by…

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