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Radioactive! : how Irene Curie and Lise Meitner revolutionized science and changed the world

Radioactive! : how Irene Curie and Lise Meitner revolutionized science and changed the world

Conkling, Winifred, author.
Book 2016

"In 1934, Irène Curie, working with her husband and fellow scientist, Frederic Joliot, made a discovery that would change the world: artificial radioactivity. This breakthrough allowed scientists to modify elements and create new ones by altering the structure of atoms. Curie shared a Nobel Prize with her husband for their work. But when she was nominated to the French Academy of Sciences, the academy denied her admission and voted to disqualify...

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ISBN:
9781616204150
161620415X
Edition:
First edition
Description:
227 pages ; 24 cm
Target Audience Note:
12 and up
7-8
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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
LCCN:
2015017256
Control Number:
1535052
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