In the 1930s, a German-Jewish chemist resettled his family in neutral Turkey. But his work on radioactive materials and ...

brushed their teeth with radium toothpaste, and wore radium cosmetics that gave their skin a bright, cheery glow. Mixed with the right kind of paint, radium would luminesce after exposure to light ...

The novelist and poet interrogates his great-grandfather’s life story, taking in Nazi Germany, 1930s Turkey and the world of chemical weapons ...

Out of this ignorance, some companies started selling radioactive products like soap, toothpaste, and — perhaps most famously — the energy drink called Radithor. Here's what Radithor did to ...

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 ...