The University of Manchester has closed the laboratories at the centre of a cancer scare in response to fears of dangerous mercury levels. The offices, which were previously home to the scientist Ernest Rutherford, a pioneer of modern nuclear physics,...
Mon 23 Feb 2009 by Laura Robertson | Read more »
A seventy-year old professor is said to have become the sixth victim of Rutherford's radiation at the University of Manchester, which is thought may already have claimed five lives. Room 2.62 and the rooms adjacent to it at the university—used a...
Wed 28 Jan 2009 by Alice Stanes | Read more »
Manchester University has launched an independent investigation to assess radiation levels in a research building following the deaths of five former staff members. Occupational cancer expert, Professor David Coggon of the University of Southampton, in...
Tue 14 Oct 2008 by John Geddie | Read more »
