ACCESS DIGITIZED EDITION
Guide/Reviews Database
SCIENCE
Jerome, Kate Boehm

Atomic Universe: The Quest to Discover Radioactivity

60 pp. | National | August, 2006 | Trade ISBN 0-7922-5543-7 $17.95 | Library ISBN 0-7922-5544-5 $25.90
(4) 4-6 Science Quest series. This book incorporates scientists' biographies within the social and scientific histories of radiation experimentation. A running timeline helps clarify events, but Jerome uses scientific terms (e.g., atomic weight, Crooke's tube) without sufficient explanation. The page layout is clean and generally well designed (although one spread shows a full-page, full-color atomic explosion opposite the chapter head "Contributions"). Websites. Glos., ind.
Reviewer: Miriam Lang Budin

RELATED 

SCIENCE

How to Build an Insect
by Gibson, Roberta
SCIENCE

A Quick History of Math
by Gifford, Clive
SCIENCE

Butterflies Are Pretty...Gross!
by Mosco, Rosemary
SCIENCE

Summertime Sleepers
by Stewart, Melissa
SCIENCE

Birds
by Krestovnikoff, Miranda
More

Get connected. Join our global community of more than 200,000 librarians and educators.

This coverage is free for all visitors. Your support makes this possible.

We are currently offering this content for free. Sign up now to activate your personal profile, where you can save articles for future viewing.

ALREADY A SUBSCRIBER?