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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Publisher Weekly Review     School Library Journal Review     More Content       More by this author     Conkling, Winifred.     Subjects     Meitner, Lise, 1878-1968 -- Juvenile literature.     Joliot-Curie, Irène, 1897-1956 -- Juvenile literature.     Women scientists -- France -- Juvenile literature     Women scientists -- Germany -- Juvenile literature.     Women scientists -- Biography -- Juvenile literature     Radioactivity -- Juvenile literature.     Nuclear fission -- Juvenile literature.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Conkling, Winifred.       by title:      Radioactive! : how I...       by call number:      539.752 C752r     Search the Web     Conkling, Winifred.     Meitner, Lise, 1878-1968 -- Juvenile literature.     Joliot-Curie, Irène, 1897-1956 -- Juvenile literature.     Women scientists -- France -- Juvenile literature     Women scientists -- Germany -- Juvenile literature.     Women scientists -- Biography -- Juvenile literature     Radioactivity -- Juvenile literature.     Nuclear fission -- Juvenile literature.       MARC Display

Radioactive! : how Irene Curie and Lise Meitner revolutionized science and changed the world / by Winifred Conkling. by Conkling, Winifred. Algonquin Young Readers, c2016. Call #: 539.752 C752r Subjects Meitner, Lise, 1878-1968 -- Juvenile literature.   Joliot-Curie, Irène, 1897-1956 -- Juvenile literature.   Women scientists -- France -- Juvenile literature   Women scientists -- Germany -- Juvenile literature.   Women scientists -- Biography -- Juvenile literature   Radioactivity -- Juvenile literature.   Nuclear fission -- Juvenile literature. ISBN:  9781616204150 (hc) 161620415X (hc) Edition:  1st ed. Description:  227 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. Summary:  Radioactive! presents the story of two women breaking ground in a male-dominated field, scientists still largely unknown despite their crucial contributions to cutting-edge research, in a nonfiction narrative that reads with the suspense of a thriller. Audience:  Ages 12 + Grade 7-8. Genre:  Biography, Juvenile. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status Due Date   Bedford Public Library Children's Nonfiction 539.752 C752r Childrens Books Checked out Jul 02, 2024 Add Copy to MyList

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