TY - BOOK AU - Robeson,Teresa AU - Huang,Rebecca TI - Queen of physics: how Wu Chien Shiung helped unlock the secrets of the atom SN - 9781454932208 AV - QC16.W785 R63 2019 U1 - 921 WU530/.092B 23 PY - 2019///] CY - New York PB - Sterling Children's Books KW - Wu, C. S. KW - Nuclear physicists KW - United States KW - Biography KW - Juvenile literature KW - Women physicists KW - Chinese Americans KW - Physicists KW - Women KW - Biographies KW - lcgft KW - Nonfiction picture books KW - csd N1 - Includes bibliographical references; Booklist starred, August 2019; Publishers Weekly, August 2019; Kirkus Review, July 2019; 4.2; K-3; 960L; Lexile; S; Fountas N2 - When Wu Chien Shiung was born in China 100 years ago, girls did not attend school. But her parents named their daughter "Courageous Hero" and encouraged her love of science. This biography follows Chien Shiung as she battles sexism at home and racism in the United States of America to become what Newsweek magazine called the "Queen of Physics" for her work on how atoms split ER -