Radioactive! : how Irene Curie & Lise Meitner revolutionized science and changed the world

Radioactive! : how Irene Curie & Lise Meitner revolutionized science and changed the world / Winifred Conkling.

Author/creator	Conkling, Winifred author.
Format	Book and Print
Edition	First edition.
Publication Info	Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Young Readers, an imprint of Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2016.
Copyright Notice	©2016
Description	227 pages ; 24 cm
Subject(s)	Joliot-Curie, Irène, 1897-1956--Juvenile literature. Meitner, Lise, 1878-1968--Juvenile literature. Women scientists--France --Biography --Juvenile literature. Women scientists--Germany --Biography --Juvenile literature. Radioactivity--Juvenile literature. Nuclear fission--Juvenile literature.

Portion of title	How Irene Curie & Lise Meitner revolutionized science and changed the world
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.
Abstract	"The ... little-known story of how two brilliant female physicists' groundbreaking discoveries led to the creation of the atomic bomb"--Amazon.com.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-213) and index.
Audience	1160 Lexile
LCCN	2015017256
ISBN	9781616204150 hardback
ISBN	161620415X hardback
Stock number	1395022 QBI

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	TRC Nonfiction	539.7 C7615R	✔ Available	Place Hold