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[–] [email protected] 104 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Had Pierre Curie not died in an accident, he would most likely have eventually died of the effects of radiation, as did his wife, their daughter Irène, and her husband Frédéric Joliot.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago

the true nuclear family

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

When your family is so brilliant they die from it.

[–] [email protected] 112 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No true, he would've become a superhero like the meme suggests.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The quote also mentioned Frédéric Joliot.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Not a male scientist.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Obviously he was actually a woman, or he wouldn't have died.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Or turned intona superhero but is good at hiding it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Did anyone check Marie's grave?

Most likely she melted into a sentient beam of radiation and is blasting all around the world, interfering with various radio signals, and science experiments, like John Bell's - just to fuck with Einstein.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

What actually happened is Joliot turned into a supervilain, he killed Pierre Curie before he could become a superhero, but was ultimately defeated by Henri Bequerel, who is immortal.

I thought this was common knowledge.

In the meantime Irene Joliot died of the radiations, as everybody would expect.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago

Don't give JK Rowling ideas.