Title:
Radioactive! : how Irene Curie and Lise Meitner revolutionized science and changed the world / by Winifred Conkling.
ISBN:
9781616204150
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Young Readers, an imprint of Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2016.
Physical Description:
227 pages : illustrated ; 23 cm
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.
Summary:
"The ... little-known story of how two brilliant female physicists' groundbreaking discoveries led to the creation of the atomic bomb"--Amazon.com.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader AR MG+ 9.2 9.0 178913.
Genre:
Language Note:
Text in English.
Interest age level:
12 and up.
Interest grade level:
7-8.
Audience:
1160L Lexile
OCLC Number:
ocn910309971
Availability:
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