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21) Sally Ride
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Series
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
This magical biography charts the life of Sally Ride, the first American woman to go into space. It's the perfect gift for young dreamers.
Author
Language
English
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One of the towering figures of twentieth-century science, Richard Feynman possessed a curiosity that was the stuff of legend. Even before he won the Nobel Prize in 1965, his unorthodox and spellbinding lectures on physics secured his reputation amongst students and seekers around the world. It was his outsized love for life, however, that earned him the status of an American cultural icon--here was an extraordinary intellect devoted to the proposition...
24) Oppenheimer
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The documentary explores famous figure J. Robert Oppenheimer, an American theoretical physicist who was called, "father of the atomic bomb" for his role in the Manhattan Project.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Both recalling his life story and recounting many of the major advances in twentieth-century science, a renowned physicist shares his autobiography through letters. While recognizing that quantum mechanics "demands serious attention," Albert Einstein in 1926 admonished fellow physicist Max Born that the theory "does not bring us closer to the secrets of the Old One." Aware that "there are deep mysteries that Nature intends to keep for herself," Freeman...
26) Sally Ride
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Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"As the first American woman in space, Sally Ride broke barriers and made her dreams come true. But she wanted to do even more! After leaving NASA, she created science and engineering programs that would help other girls and women make their dreams come true as well"--Amazon.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
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"In 1978, Sally Ride, a PhD candidate at Standford University, responded to a newspaper ad to join the US astronaut program. She was accepted and became the first American woman astronaut to fly in space! Among her other accomplishments, she played tennis like a professional, was an astrophysicist who helped develop a robotic arm for space shuttles, and later, through Sally Ride Science, worked to make science cool and accessible for girls. Sally...
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English
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"The first full-scale biography of the Nobel Prize-winning physicist and one of the fathers of the atomic age, Enrico Fermi. Enrico Fermi is unquestionably the most famous scientist to come from Italy since Galileo, so revered that he's known as The Popeof Physics. A modest, unassuming man, Fermi was nevertheless one of the most productive and creative scientists of the twentieth century, one of the fathers of the Atomic Bomb and a Nobel Prize winner...
31) Albert Einstein
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Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Explores the life of Albert Einstein, and how his theories shaped the world.
Author
Pub. Date
1968.
Language
English
Description
The fateful story of Ernest Lawrence and Robert Oppenheimer-the two giants of twentieth-century American physics-whose association began in productive harmony, climaxed in world-shattering achievement, and ended in rancor that split the nations's scientific community and swayed the entire course of United States atomic policy.
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The documentary tells the story of J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967), the theoretical physicist who led the effort to build the first atomic bomb, tested in July 1945 at the Trinity site in New Mexico. When theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer became director of the Manhattan Project, he brought with him a love of poetry, philosophy, and Eastern religion. In the years following Trinity, the classified maiden test of a prototype atomic bomb,...
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