Displaying 1 of 1 2025 Format: Book Author: Dunthorne, Joe, author. Title: Children of radium : a buried inheritance / Joe Dunthorne. Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition. Publisher, Date: New York : Scribner, 2025. Description: 228 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. Summary: This family memoir investigates the dark legacy of the author's great-grandfather, a talented German-Jewish chemist specializing in radioactive household products who woundup developing chemical weapons and gas mask filters for the Nazis. Contents: Perpetual sunshine -- Super lost -- Orgacid -- Young republic -- Your very devoted servant -- Equanimity -- The other side of the wall -- Naturalizing. Notes: "Originally published in Great Britain in 2025 by Hamish Hamilton,an imprint of Penguin Books." Subjects: Merzbacher, Siegfried, 1883-1971. Merzbacher, Siegfried, 1883-1971 -- Family. Chemical weapons -- Germany -- History -- 20th century. Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous -- War use. Chemists -- Germany -- Biography. Jews -- Germany -- Biography. Genre: Biographies. Family histories. LCCN: 2024041717 ISBN: 9781982180751 1982180757 * 9781982180775 Current Holds: 0 Local Availability:3 (of 3) System Availability:9 (of 10) Place Request Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Where Is It? Large Cover Image Librarian's View Displaying 1 of 1
