Pete,
I suppose Marie Curie can be held up as an example on how not to handle radioactive material. All of her belongings are still very radioactive and stored in lead-lined containers. Even Marie Curie is buried in a 1-inch thick lead-lined coffin.
Eric
Los Angeles Trade Technical College

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I recommend Holden Thorp as a lab safety hero. His leadership on "Safe Science - Promoting a Culture of Safety in Academic Chemical Research" is a great example and he is a research scientist and academic leader!

Mary Beth Koza, MBA
Director - Environment, Health & Safety
Responsible Official CDC Select Agent Program Department of Environment, Health and Safety University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Office 919-843-5913 Cell 919-883-7027 MBKOZA**At_Symbol_Here**ehs.unc.edu www.ehs.unc.edu

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I'm not sure why Marie Curie is a safety hero. Please educate me. She mentored her daughter, Ire`ne Joliot-Curie, who said, " "Anyone who worries about radiation hazards is not a dedicated scientist." Mouth pipetting was common back then.

Pete

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I'm preparing for a presentation about safety story telling later this week at SERMACS and a question has arisen that the list might be able to help with:

If you asked today's undergraduate science student to name 3 to 5 laboratory scientists (as opposed to general scientists) from the 20th Century, who are they most likely to name? Which are the similar names from the 21st Century?

The names that spring to my Google-aided mind are Marie Curie, Watson and Crick (and Franklin), and Fermi. Glenn Seaborg is important, but I don't know if anyone today would know why...

Are there others?

Thanks for any thoughts on this.

- Ralph

Ralph Stuart, CIH, CCHO
Environmental Safety Manager
Keene State College
603 358-2859

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