Radioactive! : how Irene Curie & Lise Meitner revolutionized science and changed the world / Winifred Conkling.
| Author/creator | Conkling, Winifred author. |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication | Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Young Readers, an imprint of Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2016. |
| Copyright Date | ©2016 |
| Description | 227 pages ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| 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 |