Radioactive!
how Irène Curie and Lise Meitner revolutionized science and changed the world
Book - 2018
Describes how Irène Curie, the daughter of Marie Curie, discovered artificial radioactivity in 1934 and earned a Nobel Prize along with her husband. Her work set the stage for physicist Lise Meitner to unlock the secret of nuclear fission four years later. Discusses how Curie and Meitner were discriminated against for their gender, yet their accomplishments were crucial in the development of nuclear energy and ultimately, the nuclear bomb. Includes over fifty period photographs and sidebars.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill, North Carolina :
Algonquin Young Readers,
2018.
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| Edition: | First paperback edition. |
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a "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. | |
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