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Title
Radioactive! : how Irčne Curie and Lise Meitner revolutionized science and changed the world First edition.
Author
Conkling, Winifred,
Publisher:
Algonquin Young Readers, an imprint of Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill,
Pub date:
2016.
Description:
227 pages :
ISBN:
161620415X
Item info:
2 copies currently available - Glen Allen Library and Tuckahoe Library.
Number of holds:
0
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Radioactive! : how Irčne Curie and Lise Meitner revolutionized science and changed the world
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Conkling, Winifred,
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Conkling, Winifred,
Title:
Radioactive! : how Irčne Curie and Lise Meitner revolutionized science and changed the world / by Winifred Conkling.
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Info:
Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Young Readers, an imprint of Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2016.
Physical descrip:
227 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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 -- Afterword: Physicists, pacifists, realists.
Summary:
"The ... little-known story of how two brilliant female physicists' groundbreaking discoveries led to the creation of the atomic bomb"--Amazon.com.
Held by:
GLEN-ALLEN TWNHICKORY TUCKAHOE
Personal subject:
Joliot-Curie, Irčne, 1897-1956.
Personal subject:
Meitner, Lise, 1878-1968.
Subject term:
Nuclear fission.
Subject term:
Radioactivity.
Subject term:
Women scientists--France--Biography.
Subject term:
Women scientists--Germany--Biography.
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