Radioactive! : how Irène Curie and Lise Meitner revolutionized science and changed the world
Title
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Radioactive! : how Irène Curie and Lise Meitner revolutionized science and changed the world
Author
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Conkling, Winifred author.
ISBN
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9781616204150
Edition
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First edition.
Physical Description
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227 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Contents
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"The most beautiful experiment in the world?" -- Little Queen and the other baby -- On the battlefields -- Dr. and Mrs. -- Right on time -- Lost and found -- A lab of her own -- Radium: treatment or toxin? -- Heavy metals -- Fleeing Hitler's Germany -- Eureka! the discovery of fission -- Chain reaction: research on fission goes global -- War -- Overlooked -- Afterword: Physicists, pacifists, realists.
Reading Level
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1160 L Lexile
Personal Subject
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Joliot-Curie, Irène, 1897-1956.
Meitner, Lise, 1878-1968.
Subject Term
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Women scientists -- France -- Biography.
Women scientists -- Germany -- Biography.
Radioactivity.
Nuclear fission.
Summary
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"The ... little-known story of how two brilliant female physicists' groundbreaking discoveries led to the creation of the atomic bomb"--Amazon.com.
| Library | Call Number | Status |
|---|
| Stillwater Public Library | TEEN 539.752 CON | Teen Nonfiction |