Title Atomic women : the untold stories of the scientists who helped create the nuclear bomb / Roseanne Montillo.

Publication Info.	New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2020.
	©2020

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Edition	First edition.
Description	266 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages [237]-257) and index.
Contents	A European beginning -- All that glitters -- A shy and quiet girl -- A life in learning -- Power couple -- In exile -- A secret project -- Bomb making in America -- Two of a kind -- The general and the atheist -- American life -- Recruiting -- Leona -- Coworkers -- The reactor -- Diz -- The professor and the apprentice -- Chicago pile 1 -- The Los Alamos visit -- Coming to America -- Trinity -- The end and the beginning.
Summary	"They were leaning over the edge of the unknown and afraid of what they would discover there: Meet the World War II female scientists who worked in the secret sites of the Manhattan Project. Recruited not only from labs and universities from across the United States but also from countries abroad, these scientists helped in -- and often initiated -- the development of the atomic bomb, taking starring roles in the Manhattan Project. In fact, their involvement was critical to its success, though many of them were not fully aware of the consequences. The atomic women include: Lise Meitner and Iraene Joliot-Curie (daughter of Marie Curie), who led the groundwork for the Manhattan Project from Europe; Elizabeth Rona, the foremost expert in plutonium, who gave rise to the "Fat Man" and "Little Boy," the bombs dropped over Japan;Leona Woods, Elizabeth Graves, and Joan Hinton, who were inspired by European scientific ideals but carved their own paths." -- (Source of summary not specified)
Subject	Women physicists -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
	Nuclear engineers -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
	Nuclear physics -- Research -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
	Nuclear weapons -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
	Women physicists -- Biography.
	Nuclear engineers -- Biography.
	Nuclear physics -- Researchy -- History -- 20th century.
	Nuclear weapons -- History -- 20th century.
	Nuclear engineers. (OCoLC)fst01040074
	Nuclear physics -- Research. (OCoLC)fst01040411
	Nuclear weapons. (OCoLC)fst01040971
	Women physicists. (OCoLC)fst01178305
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term	1900-1999
Genre/Form	Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
	Young adult literature.
ISBN	9780316489591 hardcover
	031648959X hardcover
	9780316489584 electronic book
	9780316489614 library edition electronic book

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