Product Description: James A. Mahaffey, Ph.D., has more than 25 years' experience as a senior research scientist at the Georgia Tech Research Institute, where he was engaged in a wide variety of projects, ranging from theoretical mathematics to nuclear science...read more

Product Description: These books are without a doubt the definitive and most entertaining biographies of scientists for young readers. Author and artist Mike Venezia provides hilarious, cartoon-style illustrations to complement his easy-to-read text and full-color reproductions of the scientists' sketches and notebooks...read more

Discusses the discovery of the atom and its parts, the development of nuclear fission in laboratories, and how nuclear fission can be and has been used for.

This fabulous new series takes key scientific developments from the last century and investigates how they came about, their creation or discovery, and their long-term effects.

Profiles German chemist Otto Hahn, whose research into radioactivity led to the discovery of nuclear fission and, despite his opposition, to the development of the atomic bomb.

A biography of the twentieth-century Austrian scientist who, despite facing discrimination as a Jew and a female, made discoveries in nuclear physics which played a major part in the development of atomic energy.

Profiles the life and career of physicist Lisa Meitner, discussing her discovery of nuclear fission despite prejudice against women in the field of science during that time. (view table of contents)

Describes atoms, how to split them, the scientists who discovered them, and what happens when they are split.

A biography of the Austrian scientist whose discoveries in nuclear physics played a major part in developing atomic energy. (view table of contents)