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Long before scientists split the atom, quacks and con artists were splitting the profits.
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Jul. 17 2021 @ 4:59pm Half Lives: The Unlikely History of Radium by Lucy Jane Santos. (Pegasus Books/TNS)
Half Lives
by Lucy Jane Santos; Pegasus Books (336, $27.99)
Long before scientists split the atom, quacks and con artists were splitting the profits.
Marie and Pierre Curie s pioneering scientific work was 50 years old before America dropped the A-bomb. But the onslaught of atomic gadgets, radioactive tonics and other potentially lethal nonsense?
That followed almost immediately.
Lucy Jane Santos Half Lives: The Unlikely History of Radium digs into the element s weird history. It begins with hungry curiosity and self-sacrificing dedication.
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