Lise Meitner : a life in physics / Ruth Lewin Sime.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sime, Ruth Lewin, 1939-

Series:

California studies in the history of science ; v. 13.

California studies in the history of science ; v. 13

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Meitner, Lise, 1878-1968.

Meitner, Lise.

Women physicists--Austria--Biography.

Women physicists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (564 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 1997, c1996.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 505-512) and index.

ISBN:

9786613622723

9780585055244

0585055246

9780520918993

0520918991

9781280592898

1280592893

OCLC:

42855101