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Radioactive! : how Irène Curie & Lise Meitner revolutionized science and changed the world
- Title
- Radioactive! : how Irène Curie & Lise Meitner revolutionized science and changed the world / Winifred Conkling.
- Author
- Conkling, Winifred
- Publication
- Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Young Readers, an imprint of Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2016.
- ©2016
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Details
- Description
- 227 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "The ... little-known story of how two brilliant female physicists' groundbreaking discoveries led to the creation of the atomic bomb"--Amazon.com.
- Alternative Title
- How Irene Curie & Lise Meitner revolutionized science and changed the world
- Subject
- Joliot-Curie, Irène, 1897-1956 > Juvenile literature
- Meitner, Lise, 1878-1968 > Juvenile literature
- Joliot-Curie, Irène, 1897-1956
- Meitner, Lise, 1878-1968
- Women scientists > France > Biography > Juvenile literature
- Women scientists > Germany > Biography > Juvenile literature
- Radioactivity > Juvenile literature
- Nuclear fission > Juvenile literature
- Nuclear fission
- Women scientists > France > Biography
- Women scientists > Germany > Biography
- Radioactivity
- Women scientists
- Germany
- France
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- Juvenile works.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-213) and index.
- Audience (note)
- 12 and up.
- 7-8.
- Language (note)
- Text in English.
- Awards (note)
- Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children 2017.
- 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 -- Afterward: physicists, pacifists, realists.
- Call Number
- JFE 17-686
- ISBN
- 9781616204150
- 161620415X
- LCCN
- 2015017256
- OCLC
- 910309971
- Author
- Conkling, Winifred, author.
- Title
- Radioactive! : how Irène Curie & Lise Meitner revolutionized science and changed the world / Winifred Conkling.
- Publisher
- Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Young Readers, an imprint of Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2016.
- Copyright Date
- ©2016
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-213) and index.
- Audience
- 12 and up.7-8.
- Study Program
- A/R 9.2 middle grades+ 9.0 points.
- Language
- Text in English.
- Awards
- Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children 2017.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 17-686