Radioactive!: How Ir�ne Curie and Lise Meitner Revolutionized Science and Changed the World

“A thorough and engaging study of two female scientists worth their weight in radium.” —Booklist, starred review   In 1934, Irène Curie and her husband won the Nobel Prize for their breakthrough discovery of artificial radioactivity. But when Curie was nominated to the French Academy of Sciences, the academy denied her admission and then voted to disqualify all women from membership. Four years later, Curie’s breakthrough led physicist Lise Meitner to a brilliant leap of understanding…