Radioactive!
How Irène Curie and Lise Meitner Revolutionized Science and Changed the World
Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Young Readers, an imprint of Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2016.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 227 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
"The ... little-known story of how two brilliant female physicists' groundbreaking discoveries led to the creation of the atomic bomb"--Amazon.com.
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.
Subjects:
Joliot-Curie, Irène, 1897-1956 -- Teen literature.
Meitner, Lise, 1878-1968 -- Teen literature.
Women scientists -- France -- Biography -- Teen literature.
Women scientists -- Germany -- Biography -- Teen literature.
Radioactivity -- Teen literature.
Nuclear fission -- Teen literature.
Joliot-Curie, Irène, 1897-1956 -- Teen literature.
Meitner, Lise, 1878-1968 -- Teen literature.
Women scientists -- France -- Biography -- Teen literature.
Women scientists -- Germany -- Biography -- Teen literature.
Radioactivity -- Teen literature.
Nuclear fission -- Teen literature.
Target Audience: 12 and up.
ISBN:
9781616204150
Availability | |||
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
T SCIENCE Con | Main (Downtown) | Available by placing a hold, Repository - Teen | In |
T SCIENCE Con | Ballentine Indoors | Teen Nonfiction | In |
T SCIENCE Con | Southeast | Teen Nonfiction | Out (Due: 6/10/2024) |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Text in English.
Text in English.