Absolutely not. Dials on clocks and watches in the 1920’s to 1940’s were painted to produce a glow in the dark luminescence with a phosphor mixed with radium. The risk of radium used in ...

In 1917, scores of patriotic young women, later known as “radium girls,” counted themselves lucky to have landed war work at ...

Author Dava Sobel discusses how she discovered the many forgotten female scientists who were mentored by Marie Curie in early ...

SINCE very active preparations of radium have become available, a steady search has been going on in many quarters for agents which will respond to the radiations and convert them into visible light.

Radium Girls is being presented by the Powerhouse Theatre, and Don Dennison's mom was actually a radium dial painter ...