STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) *Radioactive!: How Irène Curie & Lise Meitner Revolutionized Science and Changed the World

This account examines the scientific research of Irène Curie and Lise Meitner and the role their discoveries played in understanding and using nuclear fission. In 1934, Curie and her husband, Frédéric Joliot, discovered artificial radioactivity. The book connects the work of two women physicists to scientific developments that led to the atomic bomb, using archival photographs and source material.