SNMMI annual meeting featured a prostate cancer session and a presentation by Dr. Sabina Dizdarevic discussing sequencing and combining beta and alpha targeted radionuclide treatments in the ...

Marie Curie worked with radioactive material with her bare hands. More than 100 years later, Sophie Hardach travels to Paris ...

The new book picks up a decade later with a different crisis, this one born of a sudden increase in drugs. Among the novel’s central characters are people engaged in trafficking, a vigilante intent on ...

Later, Dunthorne travels to the site of the Dersim massacre, where chemical weapons developed by Siegfried’s employer were used in a genocidal attack on Kurdish Turks in the late 1930s.

Radium with everything. ... The radium bound to their bones like its chemical cousin, calcium, injuring, disfiguring and killing many of the 2,000 workers estimated to have been employed at peak.

As Mr. Dunthorne, a British novelist and poet, tells us in his memoir “Children of Radium,” his German-Jewish great-grandfather, Siegfried Merzbacher, had created it.

Children of Radium: A Buried Inheritance by Joe Dunthorne, Hamish Hamilton £16.99/Scribner $28.99, 320 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café and follow FT Weekend on ...

Children of Radium is a powerful exploration of the struggle to separate truth from the stories we want to believe. Dunthorne interrogates not just the omissions and self-deceptions in his great ...

Joe Dunthorne’s new memoir, “Children of Radium,” is an investigation into the life of his great-grandfather, Siegfried, who was involved in developing chemical weapons for the Nazis ...

In 1926, Siegfried worked to create “activated charcoal” filters for gas masks, a task he justified as life-saving. In 1928, he was named the director of a German lab researching chemical ...