The Radium Girls by Kate Moore

The Radium Girls

Kate Moore

480 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction biography history science emotional slow-paced
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 As the First World War spread across the world, young American women flocked to work in factories, painting clocks, watches and military dials with a special luminous substance made from radium. It was a fun job, lucrative and glamorous – the gir...

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