The Woman Who Split the Atom: The Life of Lise Meitner

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- One: Dreams of the Impossible -- Two: Education At Last! -- Three: A Professor with No Profession -- Four: A Partnership Better than Marriage -- Five: The New Science of Radioactivity -- Six: Out of the Dark -- Seven: War and Science...

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1. Verfasser: Moss, Marissa 1959- (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York, NY Abrams Books for Young Readers [2022]
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Zusammenfassung:Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- One: Dreams of the Impossible -- Two: Education At Last! -- Three: A Professor with No Profession -- Four: A Partnership Better than Marriage -- Five: The New Science of Radioactivity -- Six: Out of the Dark -- Seven: War and Science -- Eight: Back in the Lab -- Nine: After the War -- Ten: A Professor at Last -- Eleven: "Jewish" Physics vs "Aryan" Physics -- Twelve: Hitler Takes Power -- Thirteen: Boycott the Jews! -- Fourteen: A Talk With Hitler About Science -- Fifteen: To Go or To Stay -- Sixteen: The Nazification of Science -- Seventeen: Can It Get Worse? -- Eighteen: The New Radioactive Physics -- Nineteen: The Jewess Must Go -- Twenty: Passport Problems -- Twenty-One: How to Smuggle a Scientist -- Twenty-Two: Success or Failure? -- Twenty-Three: A Narrow Escape -- Twenty-Four: A Brilliant Enough Physicist? -- Twenty-Five: An Atomic Mystery -- Twenty-Six: The Atom Splits! -- Twenty-Seven: The Impossible Is Possible! -- Twenty-Eight: The Power of Nuclear Fission -- Twenty-Nine: A Letter from Einstein -- Thirty: The Race for the Bomb -- Thirty-One: A Lab of One's Own -- Thirty-Two: Another Physicist Escapes -- Thirty-Three: The German Nuclear Program -- Thirty-Four: What to do With Nazi Scientists? -- Thirty-Five: The Mother of the Bomb -- Thirty-Six: The Americans did What?! -- Thirty-Seven: Meitner in America -- Thirty-Eight: The Nobel Prize for Nuclear Fission Goes To -- Thirty-Nine: After The War: Working for Nuclear Peace -- Forty: A Prize of her Own -- Afterword -- Author's Note -- Timeline of Meitner's Life and Achievements -- Glossary of Select Terms in Physics -- Profiles of Scientists Mentioned -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Image Credits -- Acknowledgments -- Index of Searchable Terms.
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ISBN:9781419758539

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