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Summary: "A graphic account of a pioneering scientist who conducted innovative research on radioactivity. Marie Curie (1867-1934) was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two different sciences, and first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Universe 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 921 CURAllen, John
Summary: Presents the life and accomplishments of the famed chemist, from her education at the Sorbonne in Paris to her work in radioactivity and her scientific accolades.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ReferencePoint Press 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 CURAtkins, Jeannine
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MEIAmson-Bradshaw, Georgia
Summary: Be inspired by the life stories of women pioneers in the fields of science and technology from around the world, including computer programmer Ada Lovelace, physicist and chemist Marie Curie, mathematician Katherine Johnson and many more. Follow the fantastic ideas and activities featured inside and start your own brilliant scientific adventure!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayland 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 AMSMoss, Marissa
Summary: The gripping story of Lise Meitner, the physicist who discovered nuclear fission.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD 921 MEIParachini, Jodie
Summary: "A biography of astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell, who helped build a radio telescope that helped her discover pulsars, a new type of star. Some scientists consider it the greatest astronomical discovery of the twentieth century. Despite this achievement, she was overlooked in favor of two male colleagues when the Nobel Prize for physics was awarded. Bell is still working and teaching today,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BURBenedict, Marie
Summary: "The Other Einstein offers us a window into a brilliant, fascinating woman whose light was lost in Einstein's enormous shadow. It is the story of Einstein's wife, a brilliant physicist in her own right, whose contribution to the special theory of relativity is hotly debated and may have been inspired by her own profound and very personal insight. Mitza Maric has always been a little different...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2016
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Summary: "26 years ago: A girl in South Dakota falls through the earth, then wakes up dozens of feet below ground on the palm of what seems to be a giant metal hand. 9 years ago: She is a top-level physicist leading a team of people to understand exactly what that hand is, where it came from, and what it portends for humanity. Today: with the remainder of the giant robot found and assembled, every...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NEURiddolls, Tom.
Summary: Sally Ride soared into outer space on the Space Shuttle Challenger in 1983, the youngest astronaut and the first U.S. woman in space. Just 32 years old that year, this California girl was already an accomplished astrophysicist when NASA chose her from over 8,000 applicants to join its team of astronauts. Since then, Sally Ride has spent over 343 hours in space.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crabtree Pub. Co. 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 RIDNeuvel, Sylvain
Summary: "In her childhood, Rose Franklin accidentally discovered a giant metal hand buried beneath the ground outside Deadwood, South Dakota. As an adult, Dr. Rose Franklin led the team that uncovered the rest of the body parts which together form Themis: a powerful robot of mysterious alien origin. She, along with linguist Vincent, pilot Kara, and the unnamed Interviewer, protected the Earth from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NEUBenedict, Marie
Summary: The Other Einstein offers us a window into a brilliant, fascinating woman whose light was lost in Einstein's enormous shadow. It is the story of Einstein's wife, a brilliant physicist in her own right, whose contribution to the special theory of relativity is hotly debated and may have been inspired by her own profound and very personal insight. Mitza Maric has always been a little different...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BENCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Benedict 2016Palmer, Dexter Clarence
Summary: The compelling story of a couple living in the wake of a personal tragedy. She is a star employee of an online dating company, while he is a physicist, performing experiments that, if ever successful, may have unintended consequences, altering the nature of their lives and perhaps of reality itself. Rebecca Wright has gotten her life back, finding her way out of grief and depression following a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PALMcClafferty, Carla Killough
Summary: Meet Manya Sklodowska, better known today as Marie Curie, the co-discoverer of radium, and who became the first woman awarded the Nobel prize for her work on the discovery. Learn what life was like for Marie, and the effect her discovery had on the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CURStine, Megan.
Summary: Looks at the life and career of the physicist and NASA astronaut who became the first American woman in space in 1983.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 RIDCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BASKET RIDESwaby, Rachel.
Summary: "Covering Nobel Prize winners and major innovators, as well as lesser-known but hugely significant scientists who influence our every day, Rachel Swaby's ... profiles span centuries of courageous thinkers and illustrate how each one's ideas developed, from their first moment of scientific engagement through the research and discovery for which they're best known"--Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Wom SwabyPulley, Natasha
Summary: In 1883, Thaniel Steepleton returns to his tiny flat to find a gold pocketwatch on his pillow. But he has worse fears than generous burglars; he is a telegraphist at the Home Office, which has just received a threat for what could be the largest-scale Fenian bombing in history. When the watch saves Thaniel's life in a blast that destroys Scotland Yard, he goes in search of its maker, Keita...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PULFeldman, Thea
Summary: Meet Katherine Johnson, a brilliant mathematician who worked at NASA in the early 1950s until retiring in 1986. Katherine's unparalleled calculations (done by hand) helped plan the trajectories for NASA's Mercury and Apollo missions (including the Apollo 11 moon landing). She is said to be one of the greatest American minds of all time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Space FeldmanCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE FELHopkinson, Deborah
Summary: "Before Marie Curie was the first woman in France to earn the highest degree in physics, before she discovered two new radioactive elements, and became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize (and then the first person to win two!)— she was a little girl named Marie Sklodowska who dreamed of being a scientist—and was determined to make that dream come true."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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Summary: "Berlin, 1938. Groundbreaking physicist Dr. Hannah Weiss is on the verge of the greatest discovery of the 20th century: splitting the atom. She understands that the energy released by her discovery can power entire cities or destroy them. Hannah believes the weapon's creation will secure an end to future wars, but as a Jewish woman living under the harsh rule of the Third Reich, her research is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELIDench, Judi
Summary: An elderly widow is arrested by MI5 and charged with being a spy for the Soviet government.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shout! Factory 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE REDCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ReBrereton, Catherine
Summary: Discusses the progress women have made in physics and engineering.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 BRETaranto, Julius
Summary: A funny novel about a graduate student who decides to follow her disgraced mentor to a university that gives safe harbor to scholars of ill repute, igniting a crisis of work and a test of her conscience (and marriage).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEAbawi, Atia
Summary: "As the first American woman in space, Sally Ride broke barriers and made her dreams come true. But she wanted to do even more! After leaving NASA, she created science and engineering programs that would help other girls and women make their dreams come true as well."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 RIDFlynn, Michael (Michael F.)
Summary: Tom, a contemporary historian and his physicist girlfriend Sharon become interested in a one small town in Germany that disappeared in 1349 and was never resettled. Father Deitrich the priest of the village is the first contact between humanity and an alien race from a distant star when their interstellar ship crashes in the nearby forest in 1348, the year the Black Death spread across Europe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Book 2006