Lise Meitner : A Life in Physics.

Lise Meitner (1878-1968) was a pioneer of nuclear physics and co-discoverer, with Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann, of nuclear fission. Braving the sexism of the scientific world, she joined the prestigious Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry and became a prominent member of the international physi...

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Author / Creator: Sime, Ruth Lewin.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Edition:1st ed.
Imprint: Berkeley : University of California Press, 1996.
Series:California Studies in the History of Science Ser.
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Local Note:Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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505 0 |a Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- 1. Girlhood in Vienna -- 2. Beginnings in Berlin -- 3. The First World War -- 4. Professor in the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut -- 5. Experimental Nuclear Physics -- 6. Under the Third Reich -- 7. Toward the Discovery of Nuclear Fission -- 8. Escape -- 9. Exile in Stockholm -- 10. The Discovery of Nuclear Fission -- 11. Priorities -- 12. Again, World War -- 13. War Against Memory -- 14. Suppressing the Past -- 15. No Return -- 16. Final Journeys -- Appendix -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index. 
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