Throughout the early 20th century, hundreds of thousands of people drank radium-infused tonic water, brushed their teeth with ...

As Mr. Dunthorne, a British novelist and poet, tells us in his memoir “Children of Radium,” his German-Jewish great-grandfather, Siegfried Merzbacher, had created it.

Modern workplace safety owes a debt to the tragic story of the 'Radium Girls.' Little Theatre of Norfolk brings their story to the stage, shedding light on the history of the labor movement. Don't ...

Written by D.W. Gregory, RADIUM GIRLS takes you back to the 1920s when Madame Curie's discovery was commercialized. They put radium in almost every product-toothpaste, miracle water, whatever- and ...

Joe Dunthorne’s discursive fourth-generation memoir, “Children of Radium,” unpacks that move, ... the manufacture of a radioactive toothpaste that became the choice of the German army.

Daughter of Radium. The History Podcast Half-Life. Episode 2 of 9 ... who spent her childhood brushing her teeth with the radioactive toothpaste her father Siegfried manufactured, ...

Radium, Marie Curie and her husband discovered, ... but soon the element would appear in makeup, toothpaste and health drinks—a cure-all in the public imagination.

Children of Radium then is a triangulation between what Dunthorne finds in Siegfried’s memoir and what he learns from his own research. That radioactive toothpaste turns out to be a MacGuffin, ...

In “Children of Radium,” Joe Dunthorne explores the absurdity of family histories and his own clan’s complicated past. By Emma Brockes Emma Brockes is the author of “She Left Me the Gun ...

Radium in food, drinks, toothpaste, beauty products and other items may have given some users extra energy. However, by the early 1930s, medical and science experts learned of the harm of prolonged ...