Title Radioactive! : how Irène Curie and Lise Meitner revolutionized science and changed the world / Winifred Conkling.

Publication Info.	Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Young Readers, an imprint of Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2016.
	©2016

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Edition	First edition.
Description	227 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages [202]-217) 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.
Audience	12 and up.
	7-8.
Summary	"The ... little-known story of how two brilliant female physicists' groundbreaking discoveries led to the creation of the atomic bomb"--Amazon.com.
Study Program	Accelerated Reader AR MG+ 9.2 9.0 178913.
Language	Text in English.
Subject	Joliot-Curie, Irène, 1897-1956 -- Juvenile literature.
	Women scientists -- France -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
	Meitner, Lise, 1878-1968 -- Juvenile literature.
	Women scientists -- Germany -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
	Radioactivity -- Juvenile literature.
	Nuclear fission -- Juvenile literature.
	Young adult literature.
	Joliot-Curie, Irène, 1897-1956. (OCoLC)fst00208610
	Meitner, Lise, 1878-1968. (OCoLC)fst00067741
	Nuclear fission. (OCoLC)fst01040163
	Radioactivity. (OCoLC)fst01088014
	Women scientists. (OCoLC)fst01178507
	France. (OCoLC)fst01204289
	Germany. (OCoLC)fst01210272
Genre/Form	Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
	Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
ISBN	9781616204150
	161620415X

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