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The Radium Girls is the name given to female workers who, from the late 1910s to the late 1920s, applied luminous radium-based paint to watch dials and military equipment in various factories across the United States. Due to incorrect instructions to sharpen their brushes with their lips, these workers ingested high doses of radioactive radium and suffered severe health problems. Origins Radium, discovered in 1898 by Nobel laureates Marie Curie and Pierre Curie, quickly became a global sensation