5/18/2023 0 Comments Amelia's Notebook by Marissa Moss![]() The Eye That Never Sleeps: How Detective Pinkerton Saved President Lincolnįrom award-winning author Marissa Moss comes the first children’s book about Allan Pinkerton, one of America’s greatest detectives. The Woman Who Split the Atom is a fascinating look at Meitner's fierce passion, integrity, and her lifelong struggle to have her contributions to physics recognized. ![]() The book includes an afterword, author's note, timeline, select terms of physics, glossary of scientists mentioned, endnotes, select bibliography, index, and Marissa Moss's celebrated drawings throughout. "A physicist who never lost her humanity," Meitner wanted only to figure out how the world works, and advocated for pacifism while others called for war. Suddenly, the race to build the atomic bomb was on-although Meitner was horrified to be associated with such a weapon. While her male lab partner was awarded a Nobel Prize for the achievement, the committee refused to give her any credit. Nevertheless, she persevered and one day made a discovery that rocked the world: the splitting of the atom. ![]() Meitner made groundbreaking strides in the study of radiation, but when Hitler came to power in Germany, she suddenly had to face not only sexism, but also life-threatening anti-Semitism as well. As a female Jewish physicist in Berlin during the early 20th century, Lise Meitner had to fight for an education, a job, and equal treatment in her field, like having her name listed on her own research papers. ![]()
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