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The Woman Who Split the Atom: The Life of Lise Meitner
by Marissa Moss
Harry N. Abrams, 2022
Category: Middle Grade
Reviewer: Merle Eisman Carrus
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The Woman Who Split the Atom is an inspiring story of a woman determined to study science in spite of the challenges she faced. Author Marissa Moss takes us through Lise's life from living at home with her family to traveling to Berlin to work with some of the greatest physicists of all time. Though she was a demure, small young woman and intimidated at first, she persisted.
Meitner met important professors and scientists, who would be her friends and supporters: Max Planck, Albert Einstein, Heinrich Rubens, and Niels Bohr. She also worked with her nephew Otto Frisch and the man who became her life-long scientific partner, Otto Hahn. She published articles about her scientific findings under the name L. Meitner, so no one would know that these articles were written by a woman.
This is an important book, bringing Meitner’s life and career back into the spotlight. She was a principal player in the critical scientific discovery of nuclear fusion, overlooked by the men around her and by history because she was a Jewish woman.
Meitner made an important discovery: she split the atom, which led to an
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Lise Meitner, the Scientist Who Changed Medicine by Splitting Atoms
Abstract
The splitting of atoms, also known as nuclear fission, produces radiation and radioactivity. Dr Lise Meitner discovered how radioactivity could be produced in 1939. She found that firing a small particle called a neutron into another atom could cause radiation to be released. Radioactive atoms created in this way can be useful for detecting cancer or checking whether the body’s organs are working properly. When radioactive atoms are injected into the blood of a patient, they travel through the body and release radiation that can be detected using special cameras, creating images or videos of the body’s tissues. In this way, radiation helps doctors to better diagnose and treat patients. Unfortunately, Dr Meitner faced many obstacles and was never credited officially for her key discovery of nuclear fission.
Atoms and Nuclear Reactions
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Lise Meitner, picture scientist who changed antidote through interpretation discovery rigidity splitting atoms
Abstract
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Keywords: radiation, emission, woman
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