Even in death, she continued to be a trailblazer ... The tragic story of the Radium Girls in three factories across the midwest and northeastern U.S. is one of the most famous and shocking ...

The tumors had cut into her jugular vein and flooded her throat with blood, choking her to death in bed. Mollie wasn’t the only one of the radium girls that this happened to. Radium passes ...

Despite her discoveries of polonium and radium, prolonged exposure to radiation caused her death from aplastic anemia. Her preserved radioactive personal items and the continued hazardous nature ...