Radioactive!, how Irene Curie & Lise Meitner revolutionized science and changed the world, Winifred Conkling
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- Biographies
- Juvenile works
- Biography
- Meitner, Lise, 1878-1968 -- Juvenile literature
- France
- Women scientists -- France -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- JUVENILE NONFICTION / History / Europe
- Nuclear fission
- Radioactivity
- Women scientists -- Germany -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- Radioactivity -- Juvenile literature
- Joliot-Curie, Irene, 1897-1956
- JUVENILE NONFICTION / Biography & Autobiography / Science & Technology
- JUVENILE NONFICTION / Biography & Autobiography / Women
- Meitner, Lise, 1878-1968
- Joliot-Curie, Irene, 1897-1956 -- Juvenile literature
- Germany
- Nuclear fission -- Juvenile literature
- Women scientists
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Radioactive!, how Irene Curie & Lise Meitner revolutionized science and changed the world, Winifred Conkling
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-217) and index
resource.biographical
collective biography
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
resource.interestAgeLevel
12 and up12-19, Brodart
resource.interestGradeLevel
7-87-12, Brodart
Literary form
non fiction
Main title
Radioactive!
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
910309971
Responsibility statement
Winifred Conkling
resource.studyProgramName
Accelerated Reader, MG+, 9.2, 9Reading Counts, 6-8, 11, 13
Sub title
how Irene Curie & Lise Meitner revolutionized science and changed the world
Summary
"The ... little-known story of how two brilliant female physicists' groundbreaking discoveries led to the creation of the atomic bomb"--Amazon.com
Table of 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
Target audience
adolescent
Incoming Resources
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