They thought this ‘miracle’ metal would change the world – until people started to die
The wonder of Radium, a glowing treasure discovered by Marie Curie, blinded the world to its perils... and it quickly became ...
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The shards of heaven beneath our feet
In the early 20th century, the world went ‘raving mad on the subject of radium’, according to George Bernard Shaw. The newly ...
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The Story Of The Radium Girls And Their Decades-Long Fight For Justice
The hundreds of young women who worked in watch factories throughout the 1920s were exposed to so much radium that they used ...
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Where do most nuclear medicine techs work?
Most nuclear medicine technologists are employed in hospital settings, where they contribute to the diagnosis and treatment.
How Canada supplied uranium for the Manhattan Project
Ore mined in the Northwest Territories was transported to Port Hope, Ont., then used to develop the bombs that were dropped ...
10 greatest scientists of all times
Galileo Galilei championed the heliocentric model of the solar system and advanced modern astronomy with telescopic ...
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Who was Marie Curie?
They discovered a new element that gave off rays of heat and light - they called this radium. They studied the light and heat it gave off and called this radioactivity. They were given the most ...
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Women in Science and the Struggle for Recognition
Despite its upbeat subtitle, How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science ... Lise Meitner, a physicist who played an essential role in the discovery of nuclear fission, similarly saw her ...