Título:
Radioactive! : how Irene Curie and Lise Meitner revolutionized science and changed the world / by Winifred Conkling.
ISBN:
9781616204150
Autor personal:
Edición:
First edition.
Información de publicación:
Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Young Readers, an imprint of Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2016.
Descripción física:
227 pages : illustrated ; 23 cm
Contenido:
"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.
Síntesis:
"The ... little-known story of how two brilliant female physicists' groundbreaking discoveries led to the creation of the atomic bomb"--Amazon.com.
Información del programa:
Accelerated Reader AR MG+ 9.2 9.0 178913.
DAK_SUBJECT_TERM_DISPLAY:
DAK_SUBJECT_TERM:
DAK_LANGUAGE_NOTE:
Text in English.
DAK_521_AGE:
12 and up.
DAK_521_GRADE:
7-8.
DAK_521_LEXILE:
1160L Lexile
DAK_OCLC_NUMBER:
ocn910309971
Disponibilidad:
Farmington~1
Hastings - Pleasant Hill~1
