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Conkling, Winifred.
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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.
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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.
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Radioactive! : how Irene Curie and Lise Meitner revolutionized science and changed the world / by Winifred Conkling.
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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.
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Bedford Public Library
Children's Nonfiction
539.752 C752r
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