In 1917, scores of patriotic young women, later known as “radium girls,” counted themselves lucky to have landed war work at a large warehouse complex in Orange, New Jersey. The pay was ...

She would later appear at the American Museum of Natural History, where an exhibit commemorated her discovery of radium. The American Chemical Society, the New York Mineralogical Club, cancer ...

For The Radium Girls, students rehearsed through Zoom, their scene partners sequestered to tiny Brady Bunch-esque boxes on computer screens - separated, in some cases, by hundreds of miles.