Lise Meitner : A Life in Physics.

Lise Meitner : A Life in Physics.

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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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Bibliographic Details
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.
Subjects:
Meitner, Lise, > 1878-1968.
Women physicists > Austria > Biography.
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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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Table of Contents:
  • 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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