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 nearly ...

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 ...

The five-part podcast series is hosted by Daily Mail crime correspondent George Odling and senior reporter Andy Jehring, who ...

“My grandmother grew up brushing her teeth with radioactive toothpaste.” So begins Half-Life: Daughter of Radium, the first episode of the latest series from BBC Radio 4’s The History Podcas ...

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 ...

As a little girl growing up in post-World War I Germany, Joe Dunthorne’s grandmother was among the many who brushed their teeth with irradiated toothpaste. Doramad, his grandmother’s family ...

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

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