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Bezig met laden... Hidden Powers: Lise Meitner's Call to Sciencedoor Jeannine Atkins
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Thoroughly researched and intimately imagined, this is a novel in verse about Lise Meitner, the Austrian physicist who discovered nuclear fission, a discovery that was used to create the atomic bomb during WWII. After a 30-year career in Berlin, Lise left under false papers in 1938, making her way to Sweden, and later, Cambridge, England. Back matter: Author's note, timeline, biographical notes on friends and colleagues, selected bibliography Quotes What happens if you try to split the invisible? ... Being almost invisible doesn't keep someone safe. (10) ...somebody has to go first to make things fair. (29) Science is beautifully built on facts, but some shift as knowledge grows.... What's hidden may have more power than what we see. (55) Someone else can decide how to use what she finds. (66) She doesn't want to complain. She was taught that a woman must appear not to need money, food, or anger, which can be part of ambition. (70) It's foolish to try to blend in, to believe one can swap hiding one's history for safety. (93) I just wish people wouldn't make up things and call them fact. (102) Dictators hate science... facts get in the way of their lies. (138) Is there a difference between hate and fear? (171) There's no point in calling ourselves scientists if we don't tell the truth. (172) Now that it seems almost impossible to get out, Lise knows she must. (184) This land [Sweden] caught her from a fall, but gratitude is a pulse, not solid ground. (201) Once one person names something, it can be simple for others to see too. (216) What use is the past if we don't let it teach us? (252) geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
A biographical novel in verse about Lise Meitner, an Austrian Jew and physics professor in Nazi Germany who escaped to Sweden and whose work led to the discovery of nuclear fission. Includes author's note and timeline. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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physicist Lise Meitner, who was instrumental in the discovery of nuclear fission but was never fully credited for it.
Compelling imagery and stirring verses excellently capture Meitner's contributions, which are hidden no more.