By Marelene F. Rayner-Canham
Biographical essays on 23 girls who labored in atomic technology throughout the first 20 years of the 20 th century, together with Marie Curie, Lise Meitner, Irène Joliot-Curie, and a number of lesser-known girls scientists whose existence tales have by no means been advised earlier than.
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