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Radioactive! : how Irène Curie and Lise Meitner revolutionized science and changed the world
Title:
Radioactive! : how Irène Curie and Lise Meitner revolutionized science and changed the world
ISBN:
9781616204150
Edition:
First edition.
Physical Description:
227 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Contents:
"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:
1160 L Lexile
Summary:
"The ... little-known story of how two brilliant female physicists' groundbreaking discoveries led to the creation of the atomic bomb"--Amazon.com.
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