Without exception, the radium girls were told the paint was safe to ... radium would luminesce after exposure to light, so that a watch face painted with the stuff could soak up energy during ...

Radium Girls is D.W. Gregory’s gripping drama based ... and may even continue to face in the present. As well as reading the book to gain knowledge, Mattingly sketched the play she sent to ...

One of the more tragic stories to come about during the era of radium's popularity was that of the "Radium Girls". The US Radium ... the numbers on the watch faces and they were instructed to ...