Atomic women : the untold stories of the scientists who helped create the nuclear bomb /

They were leaning over the edge of the unknown and afraid of what they would discover there. Meet the World War II female scientists who worked in the secret sites of the Manhattan Project. Recruited not only from labs and universities from across the United States but also from countries abroad, th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Montillo, Roseanne (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Little, Brown and Company, [2020]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Women physicists > United States > Biography > Juvenile literature. Nuclear engineers > United States > Biography > Juvenile literature. Nuclear physics > Research > United States > History > 20th century > Juvenile literature. Nuclear weapons > United States > History > 20th century > Juvenile literature. Women physicists > Biography. Nuclear engineers > Biography. Nuclear physics > Researchy > History > 20th century. Nuclear weapons > History > 20th century. YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / Biography & Autobiography / Science & Technology. YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / Biography & Autobiography / Women. YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / History / United States / 20th Century.

Table of Contents:

A European beginning
All that glitters
A shy and quiet girl
A life in learning
Power couple
In exile
A secret project
Bomb making in America
Of a kind
The general and the atheist
American life
Recruiting
Leona
Coworkers
The reactor
Diz
The professor and the apprentice
Chicago pile 1
The Los Alamos visit
Coming to America
Trinity
The end and the beginning.