You, you, you've all hea heard of Marie Curie, famous erm scientist who pioneered a lot of the work on radioactivity in the early part of this century and the last part of the last century  she in fact was Polish, lived in, in, in Paris, married a French man called Pierre  er hence she's known as Marie Curie  well Pierre Curie was also a scientist and he was er baffled by the affect that,th the fact that there didn't seem to be any biological affects  er certainly the doses of radiation that, that they were, they were getting  they'd handled tons and tons of pitchblende, that's radioactive ore  they extracted several grammes of radium from it, they'd been handling stuff for years  they weren't ill, they obviously hadn't died and so on.