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Moss, Marissa, author, illustrator.

The woman who split the atom : Lise Meitner / by Marissa Moss.

New York : Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2022.

258 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

"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, like having her name listed on her own research papers. Meitner made groundbreaking strides in the study of radiation, but when Hitler came to power in Germany, 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. While her male lab partner was awarded a Nobel Prize for the achievement, the committee refused to give her any credit"-- Provided by publisher.

Ages 10 to 14. Abrams Books for Young Readers.

Meitner, Lise, 1878-1968 -- Juvenile literature.

Physicists -- Germany -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.

Women physicists -- Germany -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.

Nuclear fission -- Juvenile literature.

Title on jacket: Woman who split the atom : the life of Lise Meitner

Includes bibliographical references (page 250) and index.

Dreams of the impossible -- Education at last! -- A professor with no profession -- A partnership better than marriage -- The new science of radioactivity -- Out of the dark -- War and science -- Back in the lab -- After the war -- A professor at last -- "Jewish" physics vs. "Aryan" physics -- Hitler takes power -- Boycott the Jews! -- A talk with Hitler about science -- To go or to stay -- The Nazification of science -- Can it get worse? -- The new radioactive physics -- The Jewess must go -- Passport problems -- How to smuggle a scientist -- Success or failure? -- A narrow escape -- A brilliant enough physicist? -- An atomic mystery -- The atom splits! -- The impossible is possible! -- The power of nuclear fission -- A letter from Einstein -- The race for the bomb -- A lab of one's own -- Another physicist escapes -- The German nuclear program -- What to do with Nazi scientists? -- The mother of the bomb -- The Americans did what?! -- Meitner in America -- The Nobel Prize for nuclear fission goes to -- After the war: working for nuclear peace -- A prize of her own.

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