The men who worked for USRC wore lead aprons to protect them from this radiation, which was known to have a cumulative effect ...

In the 1950s the Center for Human Radiobiology issued calls for still living dial painters so they could study the long-term effects of radium; tissue and bone samples taken from girls in the 1920 ...

That turned out to be far from the truth. Years later, the “radium girls,” as they became known, helped people understand the long-term effects of radium exposure on human health. That’s in ...

The dire effects of working with radium and experiencing direct doses of radiation might not have been so bad but for the bosses at US. Radium insisted the girls sharpen the wet points of their ...

Radium Girls had no safety equipment, although men often did. Radium's effects could be debilitating, or fatal. Sadly, employers often told the young women, and perhaps believed, that radium was ...

Despite ‘Radium Girls’ being a period piece ... The production is literally aglow, as many special effects evoke the radioactivity that is invisible but omnipresent in the play, an unseen ...

It's a nickname that sounds just about as bad as it actually was. They were women, not girls, and in the 1920s, their job was to paint radium — a toxic but miraculously glow-in-the-dark ...

We follow the girls as they discover the effect from radium poisoning and fight for their day in court against their former employer. Their courage paved the way for the rights of workers and ...

“Roeder knew that there were dangerous effects of radium ... is so rich and sometimes we don’t even know about it.” Radium Girls will be performed March 2 and 3, at 7:30 pm in the Gordon ...