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"When Wu Chien Shiung was born in China 100 years ago, girls did not attend school. But her parents named their daughter "Courageous Hero" and encouraged her love of science. This biography follows Wu as she battles sexism at home and racism in the United States of America to become what Newsweek magazine called the "Queen of Physics" for her work on how atoms split"--
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2017.
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32 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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Experimental physicist Chien-Shiung Wu has been called the "Queen of Nuclear Research" and the "First Lady of Physics." Learn how her contributions to the field of nuclear physics helped earn her those nicknames.
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2017.
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47 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
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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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