The Radium Girls

[Simpo Two]

An interesting story: www.damninteresting.com/undark-and-the-radium-girl...

[BevR]

In a similar vein one of the first people to try and treat cancer with X-rays was Emil Grubbe, however he didn't really understand what was going on and tended to get cancer....a lot. It is said he had over 90 operations to remove tumors over his lifetime but lived until 85!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_Grubbe

[Ross1988]

Love thst website. Has a penchant for disasters? Which suites me fine.

Read this one earlier and it's pretty crazy!

[Caruso]

Thankfully modern watches use Tritium these days instead.



Beta Rays (electrons) are the only decay product.