Atomic Pioneers, Book 3: From the Late 19th to the Mid-20th Century
Roy and Roselyn Hiebert
Short biographies of the scientists who unlocked the atom, from Rutherford and Bohr to Fermi and Meitner. A lively way to meet the people behind nuclear energy.
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