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RE: First radiation victim
I do not know who the first victim was, but in two radiation history reviews, one compiled by Kathren and another in a CRC publication by by an author whose name I no not recall, I found the following:
The first award for radiation malpractice (X-ray burns) was in May of 1899.
In January of 1901, a person is alleged to have died of exposure to X-rays.
By 1902, Codman reports that the number of injuries attributable to X-ray exposure was 147.
In 1907, Wagner, an early X-ray experimenter started to carry a photographic plate in his pocket and developed each night to monitor radiation exposure. He died 6 months later of cancer. The entry in the citations did not indicate whether or not the cancer had be initiated before the X-ray work began.
Sorry, but I did not copy down the original references when I saved this info to disk a number of years ago. But, as you can see, these dates predate the deaths of the Ra dial painters.
Kjell Johansen
Sr. Chemist
Point Beach Nuclear Plant
Two Rivers, WI
kjell.johansen@nmcco.com
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