Even in death, Marie Curie’s body held a secret: it remained radioactive, requiring a special lead-lined coffin for burial.

Speaking about the charity, she told the PA news agency: “We don’t talk about death enough, and it’s (Marie Curie) all about living and prolonging life. “And people don’t talk about the ...

Yet as playwright Lauren Gunderson’s “The Half-Life of Marie Curie” illuminates ... six years after her husband’s death, and in the crosshairs of gossip over an alleged affair.