Lise Meitner and the Dawn of the Nuclear Age

Patricia Rife (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

432 Seiten

2006 | 1st ed. 1999. 2nd printing 2006
Birkhauser Boston Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8176-4559-5 (ISBN)

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In this captivating biography, Patricia Rife interprets both the life and times of Lise Meitner (1878-1968), the female physicist at the heart of the discovery of nuclear fission. She was a colleague and friend of many of the giants of 20th century physics: M. Planck, her Berlin mentor, A. Einstein, M. von Laue, Madame M. Curie, J. Chadwick, W. Pauli, and N. Bohr. Meitner was the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in physics at the University of Vienna, a pioneer in the research of radioactive processes and, together with her nephew Otto Robert Frisch, an interpreter of the process of nuclear fission in 1938. Yet at the end of World War II, her colleague of thirty years, radiochemist Otto Hahn alone was awarded the 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the "discovery" of nuclear fission -- a discovery based on years of research in which Meitner was directly involved before her secret escape from Nazi Germany.

Choosing the Path of Physics: 1878–1906.- Berlin: 1907–1909.- New Explorations at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute: 1909–1914.- World War I and Its Consequences: 1914–1920.- Shadows Lengthen: The Struggle Out of the Causal Chain, 1920–1932.- Science in Nazi Germany: 1933–1936.- The Transuranic Maze: 1934–1938.- Escape from Nazi Germany: 1938.- The Discovery and Interpretation of Fission: 1938.- The News of Fission Spreads: 1939.- Chain Reaction and the Dawn of the Nuclear Age: 1939.- Secrecy and Code Names: War Research Surrounding Nuclear Fission, 1939–1942.- The Dark Days of War: 1941–1945.- The Atomic Bomb, a Trip to Washington, and the Nobel Prize Controversy: 1945–1946.- Epilogue.

Vorwort	J.A. Wheeler
Zusatzinfo	35 Illustrations, black and white; XVIII, 432 p. 35 illus.
Verlagsort	Secaucus
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Chemie ► Physikalische Chemie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Atom- / Kern- / Molekularphysik
ISBN-10	0-8176-4559-4 / 0817645594
ISBN-13	978-0-8176-4559-5 / 9780817645595
Zustand	Neuware