Alexandra Badiu
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: As a child, Abby Wambach was loud and clear about what she wanted and what she didn’t, and she didn’t want to be left out of any competition-especially soccer. In this powerful biography, readers will dance and dart down fields with Abby as she slingshots--balls thwump… whiz… whoosh--straight into goals, sweating and scoring her way from school league leader to U.S. Women’s National Team star. The story follows Abby...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A biography of astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell, who helped build a radio telescope that helped her discover pulsars, a new type of star. Some scientists consider it the greatest astronomical discovery of the twentieth century. Despite this achievement, she was overlooked in favor of two male colleagues when the Nobel Prize for physics was awarded. Bell is still working and teaching today, with recognition.