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The Resource Radioactive! : how Irène Curie & Lise Meitner revolutionized science and changed the world, Winifred Conkling, (electronic resource)
Radioactive! : how Irène Curie & Lise Meitner revolutionized science and changed the world, Winifred Conkling, (electronic resource)
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The item Radioactive! : how Irène Curie & Lise Meitner revolutionized science and changed the world, Winifred Conkling, (electronic resource) represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in San Francisco Public Library.This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
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The item Radioactive! : how Irène Curie & Lise Meitner revolutionized science and changed the world, Winifred Conkling, (electronic resource) represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in San Francisco Public Library.
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- Summary
- Shares the story of how the daughter of Marie and Pierre Curie discovered artificial radioactivity and won a Nobel Prize in spite of being denied an advanced education, inspiring physicist Lise Meitner to make a vital discovery about nuclear fission
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (227 pages)
- Contents
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- "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
- Isbn
- 9781616205553
- Label
- Radioactive! : how Irène Curie & Lise Meitner revolutionized science and changed the world
- Title
- Radioactive!
- Title remainder
- how Irène Curie & Lise Meitner revolutionized science and changed the world
- Statement of responsibility
- Winifred Conkling
- Subject
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- Meitner, Lise, 1878-1968
- Meitner, Lise, 1878-1968 -- Juvenile literature
- Nuclear fission
- Nuclear fission -- Juvenile literature
- Radioactivity
- Radioactivity -- Juvenile literature
- Joliot-Curie, Irène, 1897-1956
- Women scientists
- Women scientists -- France -- Biography | Juvenile literature
- Women scientists -- Germany -- Biography | Juvenile literature
- Women -- Biography
- Joliot-Curie, Irène, 1897-1956 -- Juvenile literature
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Shares the story of how the daughter of Marie and Pierre Curie discovered artificial radioactivity and won a Nobel Prize in spite of being denied an advanced education, inspiring physicist Lise Meitner to make a vital discovery about nuclear fission
- Biography type
- collective biography
- Cataloging source
- NjBwBT
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Conkling, Winifred
- Dewey number
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- 539.7/52
- B
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Intended audience
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- 12 and up
- 7-8
- LC call number
- QC774.J65
- LC item number
- C66 2016
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Joliot-Curie, Irène
- Meitner, Lise
- Joliot-Curie, Irène
- Meitner, Lise
- Women scientists
- Women scientists
- Radioactivity
- Nuclear fission
- Women scientists
- Radioactivity
- Nuclear fission
- Women
- Target audience
- juvenile
- Label
- Radioactive! : how Irène Curie & Lise Meitner revolutionized science and changed the world, Winifred Conkling, (electronic resource)
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-213) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- 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
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (227 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781616205553
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 0016698748
- Quality assurance targets
- unknown
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Specific material designation
- remote
- Label
- Radioactive! : how Irène Curie & Lise Meitner revolutionized science and changed the world, Winifred Conkling, (electronic resource)
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-213) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- 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
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (227 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781616205553
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 0016698748
- Quality assurance targets
- unknown
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Specific material designation
- remote
Subject
- Meitner, Lise, 1878-1968
- Meitner, Lise, 1878-1968 -- Juvenile literature
- Nuclear fission
- Nuclear fission -- Juvenile literature
- Radioactivity
- Radioactivity -- Juvenile literature
- Joliot-Curie, Irène, 1897-1956
- Women scientists
- Women scientists -- France -- Biography | Juvenile literature
- Women scientists -- Germany -- Biography | Juvenile literature
- Women -- Biography
- Joliot-Curie, Irène, 1897-1956 -- Juvenile literature
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