He also owns a German toothpaste dug out from trenches of World War Two called Doramad, which is radioactive. He explained: "I consider this one of the most unusual ones because the toothpaste ...

Dunthorne’s title derives from one of Siegfried’s early professional accomplishments: the manufacture of a radioactive toothpaste that became the choice of the German army. “A branch factory ...

Dunthorne has a clear ear for melodrama, opening the series with the line, “My grandmother grew up brushing her teeth with radioactive toothpaste.” Siegfried, we learn, in the 1920s had helped ...

There was a more personal reason to use Doramad radioactive toothpaste. As Mr. Dunthorne, a British novelist and poet, tells us in his memoir “Children of Radium,” his German-Jewish great ...

Other unusual entries in his collection include a tube of Doramad toothpaste containing the radioactive compound thorium and a tube of Brenner's toothpaste made specifically as a prop for the TV ...

Show more Novelist Joe Dunthorne had always wanted to write about his great-grandfather, Siegfried Merzbacher: an eccentric scientist who made radioactive toothpaste in 1920s Germany – believing ...

He was a chemist from a prosperous German family who, before World War II, developed household chemicals, in particular a brand of radioactive toothpaste called Doramad, which he gave to his young ...