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A Dazzle in the Bones

By Deborah Blum
Posted: March 26, 2011

Category: radium, science history, Speakeasy Science, The Poisoner's Handbook | Tagged Alexander Gettler, alpha radiation, dial workers, Harrison S. Martland, New York City Medical Examiner's Office, radiation exposure, radioactivity, radium, Radium Girls, The Poisoner's Handbook, U.S. Radium Corporation | 31 Comments

Life in the Undark

By Deborah Blum
Posted: March 25, 2011

Category: radium, science history, Speakeasy Science, The Poisoner's Handbook | Tagged alpha radiation, beta radiation, Consumers Union of New Jersey, gamma radiation, Harrison S. Martland, Japan, Marie Curie, nuclear power, polonium, radioactivity, radon, The Poisoner's Handbook, The Radium Girls, U.S. Radium Corporation, uranium | 8 Comments

The Radium Girls

By Deborah Blum
Posted: March 24, 2011

Category: radium, science history, Speakeasy Science, The Poisoner's Handbook | Tagged 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics, Alexander Gettler, Charles Norris, Harrison S. Martland, Henri Becquerel, Marie Curie, N.J., New York City Medical Examiner's Office, nuclear, Orange, Pierre Curie, polonium, radioactivity, radium, The Radium Girls, U.S. Radium Corporation, uranium | 19 Comments