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

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)