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

The exciting, little-known report of how two amazing girl physicists' groundbreaking discoveries resulted in the creation of the atomic bomb. In 1934, Irene Curie, dealing with her spouse and fellow scientist, Frederic Joliot, made a finding that could change the world: man-made radioactivity. This breakthrough allowed scientists to modify elements and create new ones by changing the composition of atoms. Curie shared a Nobel Award with her spouse because of their work. However when she was nominated to the French Academy of Sciences, the academy refused her admission and voted to disqualify all women from account. Four years later, Curie's breakthrough led physicist Lise Meitner to a brilliant leap of knowing that unlocked the trick of nuclear fission. Meitner's unique insight was critical to the revolution in technology that resulted in nuclear energy and the contest to develop the atom bomb, yet her accomplishment was kept unrecognized by the Nobel committee and only that of her male colleague. Radioactive! presents the storyline of two women breaking surface in a male-dominated field, researchers still largely undiscovered despite their important contributions to cutting-edge research, in a nonfiction narrative that reads with the suspense of a thriller.

Category: Europe