Radioactive!
Subtitle: how Irene Curie and Lise Meitner revolutionized science and changed the world
By: by Winifred Conkling
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Algonquin
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, NC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9781616204150
Subjects: Juvenile literature; Radioactivity; Nuclear fission; Biography; Women scientists
Description: Radioactive! presents the story of two women breaking ground in a male-dominated field, scientists still largely unknown despite their crucial contributions to cutting-edge research, in a nonfiction narrative that reads with the suspense of a thriller.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

9YA Childrens Plus, Inc.

1160 Lexile.
Table of contents: title: "The most beautiful experiment in the world?"; title: Little queen and the other baby; title: On the battlefields; title: Dr. and Mrs.; title: Right on time; title: Lost and found; title: A lab of her own; title: Radium: treatment or toxin?; title: Heavy metals; title: Fleeing Hitler's Germany; title: Eureka! the discovery of fission; title: Chain reaction: research on fission goes global; title: War; title: Overlooked; title: Afterward: physicists, pacifists, realists.