The Woman Who Split the Atom - Couverture rigide

 
9781419758539: The Woman Who Split the Atom

Synopsis

This tells the gripping story of Lise Meitner. As a female Jewish physicist in Berlin during the early 20th century, Lise Meitner had to fight for an education, a job, and equal treatment in her field. Meitner made groundbreaking strides in the study of radiation, but when Hitler came to power, she suddenly had to face not only sexism, but also life-threatening anti-Semitism as well. Nevertheless, she persevered and one day made a discovery that rocked the world: the splitting of the atom.

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À propos de l?auteur

Marissa Moss has written more than 70 children's books. She is the bestselling author/illustrator of the Amelia's Notebook series and illustrator of The Eye That Never Sleeps, America's Tea Parties, Barbed Wire Baseball, and Nurse, Soldier, Spy. Her awards include two California Book Awards, a Eureka! Nonfiction Children's Book Award Honor, an NCSS/CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People, an ALA Notable, and the Cowan Writers' Prize. She lives in Berkeley, California.

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This tells the gripping story of Lise Meitner. As a female Jewish physicist in Berlin during the early 20th century, Lise Meitner had to fight for an education, a job, and equal treatment in her field. Meitner made groundbreaking strides in the study of radiation, but when Hitler came to power, she suddenly had to face not only sexism, but also life-threatening anti-Semitism as well. Nevertheless, she persevered and one day made a discovery that rocked the world: the splitting of the atom.

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