A conversation with his granny, who spent her childhood brushing her teeth with the radioactive toothpaste her father Siegfried manufactured, leads Joe to finally read his great-grandfather's ...

Joe Dunthorne’s Children of Radium (Hamish Hamilton), a family history ... chemistry and genocide studies, from radioactive toothpaste to chemical warfare.” When researching Merzbacher ...

The story of a Jewish chemist who lived with his wife and two children in Berlin and injected radium into his gums in his efforts to develop a radioactive toothpaste. The story of the family’s escape ...

There was a more personal reason to use Doramad radioactive toothpaste. As Mr. Dunthorne, a British novelist and poet, tells us in his memoir “Children of Radium,” his German-Jewish great ...

Children of Radium then is a triangulation between what Dunthorne finds in Siegfried’s memoir and what he learns from his own research. That radioactive toothpaste turns out to be a MacGuffin ...

In the opening pages of Children of Radium, Joe Dunthorne describes the ... a Jewish chemist who created a radioactive toothpaste in the 1920s that promised “blindingly white” teeth.

CHILDREN OF RADIUM: A Buried Inheritance ... in particular a brand of radioactive toothpaste called Doramad, which he gave to his young daughter, rendering her age at her death in 2017 ...

At its heart lies his investigation into the veracity of a memoir written by his great-grandfather Siegfried who, according to family legend, was the inventor of radioactive toothpaste ...

Joe Dunthorne’s discursive fourth-generation memoir, “Children of Radium,” unpacks that move ... the manufacture of a radioactive toothpaste that became the choice of the German army.

RBC | With all the talk of nuclear power plants and storing spent fuel rods in Northwest Colorado, I thought it would be good to mention that radioactive ores and mills are nothing new to our area.