The hundreds of young women who worked in watch factories throughout the 1920s were exposed to so much radium that they used ...

The Ottawa Historical and Scouting Heritage Museum has a permanent exhibit dedicated to the young women who used radium paint on watch faces in the early 1900s while employed by ...

The wonder of Radium, a glowing treasure discovered by Marie Curie, blinded the world to its perils... and it quickly became ...

Kate Moore (authorkatemoore) on BuzzFeed - I am the author of The Radium Girls, the incredible true story of the American women who stood up and fought for justice and in so doing changed the world.

The play opens with Grace and her coworkers, dressed in drab sepia tones, painting with the neon glowing radium paint used to illuminate watch faces in the 1900s. The girls begin playfully ...