Re: Marie Curie

["Ron L. Kathren" <rkathren@beta.tricity.wsu.edu>]

Jim --

Re tissue analysis and dose:   give me a call (509-375-5643) if you wish 
to discuss this sensitive issue further.

Ron

On Fri, 9 Jun 1995 JMUCKERHEIDE@delphi.com wrote:

> Bruce and All, esp Ron Kathren,
> > 
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > Also commenting on Mme. Curie. She died at the age of 66, which I belive
> > at that time was a little above the average life expectancy (1934). I
> > have no doubt that she died of the effects of radiation, but at what
> > dose is hard to say. 
> 
> <snip> 
> > I was wondering if anyone has ever tried to estimate her dose? Or if any
> > samples of her bone tissue were take and analyzed for radium?
> 
> Is there a French "Registry" that might have wondered about her radium burden?
> With the massive doses from her radiology years, it seems unlikely anyone
> could have more total dose if she had a relatively high radium burden. 
> 
> She wrote a book after the war referred to as "Radiology in War". Is there an
> English version?  Could it have some operator dose info, and/or any more
> particulars of her own exposure? (Just knowing equipment exposure rate,
> someone would have to have gone through her journals otherwise to
> "reconstruct".) 
> 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Bruce Busby
> > http://www.umich.edu/~bbusby/
> 
> Regards, Jim 
>