Lise Meitner (eBook)

A Life in Physics

Ruth Lewin Sime (Autor)

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1996
540 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-91899-3 (ISBN)

Infos

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 physics community. Of Jewish origin, Meitner fled Nazi Germany for Stockholm in 1938 and later moved to Cambridge, England. Her career was shattered when she fled Germany, and her scientific reputation was damaged when Hahn took full credit—and the 1944 Nobel Prize—for the work they had done together on nuclear fission. Ruth Sime's absorbing book is the definitive biography of Lise Meitner, the story of a brilliant woman whose extraordinary life illustrates not only the dramatic scientific progress but also the injustice and destruction that have marked the twentieth century.

Inhalt

PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

1. Girlhood in Vienna
2. Beginnings in Berlin
3· The First World War
4· Professor in the Kaiser-Wilhelm-lnstitut
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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.3.1996
• Reihe/Serie: California Studies in the History of Science
• Reihe/Serie: California Studies in the History of Science
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Atom- / Kern- / Molekularphysik
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: 20th century • biographical • Career • Chemistry • Concentration Camp • female scientist • Feminism • feminist • Injustice • Intellectual Property • Jewish heritage • Jewish women • Judaism • Nazi Germany • Nobel prize • nuclear fission • nuclear physics • Refugee • Role model • Scientific • Sexism • sexist • Strong Women • True story • Women in History • Women in STEM • women in the workforce • World History
• ISBN-10: 0-520-91899-1 / 0520918991
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-91899-3 / 9780520918993