Lise Meitner And The Atomic Age (Unlocking The Secrets Of Science)

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About the AuthorBorn in Boston, Massachussetts, John Bankston began publishing articles in newspapers and magazines while still a teenager. Since then, he has written over two hundred articles, and contributed chapters to books such as Crimes of Passion, and Death Row 2000, which have been sold in bookstores across the world. He has written more than three dozen biographies for young adults, including Francis Crick and James Watson: Pioneers in DNA Research, Robert Goddard and the Liquid Rocket Engine, and Alexander Fleming and the Story of Penicillin (Mitchell Lane). He has worked in Los Angeles, California as a producer, screenwriter and actor. Currently he is in pre-production on Dancing at the Edge, a semi-autobiographical screenplay he hopes to film in Portland, Oregon. Last year he completed his first young adult novel, 18 to Look Younger. He now lives in Portland, Oregon.Product DescriptionA 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.