When astrophysicist Cliff Stoll decided to check his house for radioactivity, he didn’t expect the most radioactive hazard to be in a little cardboard box that dated back to the 1920s. This story first broadcast on the KGNU Science Show, How on Earth.
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Cliff Stoll is an astrophycist in Oakland California and author of The Cuckoo’s Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage. Eleanor Swanson is a professor at Regis University in Denver. Her poem about the radium girls appears in her book, A Thousand Bonds: Marie Curie and the Discovery of Radium.
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