Bibliograph

Radioactive!, how Irène Curie & Lise Meitner revolutionized science and changed the world, Winifred Conkling

Type

Label

Radioactive!, how Irène Curie & Lise Meitner revolutionized science and changed the world, Winifred Conkling

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-213) and index

resource.biographical

collective biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

resource.interestAgeLevel

12 and up

resource.interestGradeLevel

7-8

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Radioactive!

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionariesbibliography

Responsibility statement

Winifred Conkling

Sub title

how Irène Curie & Lise Meitner revolutionized science and changed the world

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

Table Of 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

Target audience

juvenile

Classification