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Radioactive!, how Irène Curie and Lise Meitner revolutionized science and changed the world, by Winifred Conkling

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Radioactive!, how Irène Curie and Lise Meitner revolutionized science and changed the world, by Winifred Conkling
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
resource.biographical
collective biography
Index
index present
resource.interestAgeLevel
Ages 12 and up
resource.interestGradeLevel
Grades 7 to 8
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Radioactive!
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
910309971
Responsibility statement
by Winifred Conkling
Sub title
how Irène Curie and Lise Meitner revolutionized science and changed the world
Summary
Shares the story of how the daughter of Marie and Pierre Curie discovered artificial radioactivity and won a Nobel Prize in spite of being denied an advanced education, inspiring physicist Lise Meitner to make a vital discovery about nuclear fission
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
pre adolescent
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