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Hidden Powers: Lise Meitner's Call to Science
Jeannine Atkins
Ages: 12+
Published: 2022
Publisher: Atheneum BFYR/S&S
ISBN: 978-1-66590-250-2
Keywords: Dedication, perseverance, courage, dislocation, Nobel Prize, physics, nuclear fission, World War I, World War II, Nazism, gender discriminartion, poetry
An Austrian-Swedish Jewish physicist whose research led to the discovery of nuclear fission endured lifelong gender discrimination and persecution under the Nazi regime. Free verse. Extensive back matter.