Radium girls

“Once pretty, vivacious young women in their late teens and early twenties awaiting marriage and children, one by one, they sickened.

Join ACSH director of bio-sciences Cameron English and Dr. Billauer as they break down these stories:

These were the women who painted watch dials beginning in 1916 with the “miracle” chemical – luminescent radium. The magic medium caused them to glow in the dark, the dust clinging to their clothes and hair.