Deadly Sunshine: The History and Fatal Legacy of Radium by David I. Harvie

Deadly Sunshine: The History and Fatal Legacy of Radium

David I. Harvie

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From its discovery by Marie Curie, radium was treated as some sort of wonder element. Capable of preventing disease, being used by quacks and doctors alike, it had thousands of uses. All that was to change by the 1920s. As radiation poisoning was ...

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