Lucy Jane Santos
Immersed in the cultural history of the nuclear age, Lucy Jane Santos received acclaim for her first book, "Half Lives: The Unlikely History of Radium" which was shortlisted for the 2021 BSHS Hughes Prize, for books that "bring scholarship to new readers by capturing the public imagination while conforming to rigorous standards of academic research".
She followed this with "Chain Reactions: A Hopeful History of Uranium" and is the Executive Secretary of the British Society for the History of Science.
She has been invited by Harwell Campus to give a lecture on Thursday 20th March as part of the ATOM Festival of Science & Technology.
Park in the Thomson Car Park and follow signs to the venue.
6pm start
"What think you? Your majesty.” Quacks, Medical Radium and Harwell
What was the pull of radium treatments that compelled Mr Notcutt to petition King George, seeking intervention to circumvent the changing regulations around the
use of the radioactive substance in consumer products? This talk uncovers the fascinating yet perilous history of radium and uranium in medical treatments, with a particular focus on the notorious
Q-Ray electro-radioactive compress.
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