Radioactive!: How Irene Curie and Lise Meitner Revolutionized Science and Changed the World

Shares the lesser-known story of how the daughter of Marie and Pierre Curie, assisted by her husband Frederic Joliot, discovered artificial radioactivity and won a Nobel Prize in spite of being denied an advanced education, inspiring physicist Lise Meitner to make a vital discovery about nuclear fission. Simultaneous eBook.