The chain reaction : pioneers of nuclear science /
Karen Fox.
- New York : Franklin Watts, c1998.
- 144 p. : ill ; 24 cm.
- Lives in science .
- Lives in science. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-135) and index.
Booklist. L.A. Recommended Foreign Language. School Library Journal.
Profiles seven people--including Marie Curie, Enrico Fermi, Robert Oppenheimer, and Andrei Sakharov--whose study of the atom has shaped the field of nuclear science during the twentieth century.