{"id":12527,"date":"2022-02-11T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-11T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=12527"},"modified":"2022-02-11T10:25:05","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T16:25:05","slug":"tapping-her-hidden-powers-lise-meitners-call-to-science-by-jeannine-atkins-ya-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=12527","title":{"rendered":"Tapping her HIDDEN POWERS: LISE MEITNER’S CALL TO SCIENCE, by Jeannine Atkins (YA book review)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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School through age fourteen,
prepare to raise a family,
but she wants more, so much more!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a time when new elements are being added to the periodic table, Lise longs to be a scientist, to study further – so unladylike for the early 1900s!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But she persists, going to university, earning her PhD, hearing the discoveries of Planck and Einstein and Hahn from the great men themselves – so much more to learn!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Segregated in her Berlin basement laboratory away from the university’s male chemists and physicists, Lise makes an electroscope to examine radioactive substances – surely they can fill the periodic table’s gaps!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She publishes her important findings in academic journals before and during and after World War I – Dr. L. Meitner<\/a> is applauded, yet her male co-researchers get more of the credit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hitler invades her home country of Austria in 1938 – safety for a Jewish woman in Nazi Germany will soon be impossible!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Can Lise escape to another country?
How will she continue her research?
Why did her lab partner alone get a Nobel Prize for their work on nuclear fission<\/a>??<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This biography in verse is a worthy addition to your reading list for International Day of Women and Girls in Science on 11 February<\/a> or any day!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What woman of science do you think should be more celebrated for her work?
**kmm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book info: Hidden Powers: Lise Meitner’s Call to Science \/ Jeannine Atkins. Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2022. [author site<\/a>] [publisher site<\/a>] Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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