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The amazing story of Lise Meitner : escaping the Nazis and becoming the world's greatest physicist / Andrew Norman.
Library at the Katz Center - Stacks QC774.M4 N67 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Norman, Andrew, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women physicists--Germany--Biography.
- Women physicists.
- Physicists--Germany--Biography.
- Physicists.
- Germany.
- Nuclear physics--History.
- Nuclear physics.
- History.
- Meitner, Lise, 1878-1968.
- Meitner, Lise.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- x, 254 pages, 24 pages of plates : illustrations, genealogical table ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Barnsley, South Yorkshire ; Havertown, PA : Pen & Sword History, 2021.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 The Journey Begins
- ch. 2 Early Years in Vienna
- ch. 3 Lise's Correspondence: An Invaluable Resource
- ch. 4 The University of Vienna
- ch. 5 The Friedrich Wilhelm University, Berlin
- ch. 6 Atomic Theory: Elements, Atoms, Radioactivity
- ch. 7 The Collaboration Between Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner
- ch. 8 The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry, Berlin
- ch. 9 War and After
- ch. 10 The Years 1920 to 1934
- ch. 11 Radioactivity: Tools Available to Lise and the Berlin Team in Their Investigation of Uranium
- ch. 12 Enrico Fermi and Uranium
- ch. 13 A Word of Caution From Ida Noddack
- ch. 14 Lise is Fascinated by Fermi's Findings
- ch. 15 The Nazi Menace
- ch. 16 Lise Escapes the Clutches of the Nazis
- ch. 17 Into Exile
- ch. 18 Eureka! Lise and Her Nephew Otto Frisch Strike Gold!
- ch. 19 Aftermath
- ch. 20 Another War
- ch. 21 Farm Hall
- ch. 22 Paul Rosbaud: Was Lise a Spy?
- ch. 23 Fate of the Meitner Family
- ch. 24 The War Ends
- ch. 25 How Hahn and Not Lise Became Sole Contender For a Nobel Prize
- ch. 26 Nobel Nominations and Deliberations: Reason and Unreason
- ch. 27 Hahn's Moment of Glory: Dissenting Voices
- ch. 28 The Alleged Nazi Bomb
- ch. 29 Niels Bohr: The Truth at Last!
- ch. 30 Manne Siegbahn: A Thorn in Lise's Side
- ch. 31 Lise's Integrity and Hatred of Dishonesty
- ch. 32 Lise's Humanity
- ch. 33 The Peace
- ch. 34 Walter Meitner, Lise's Beloved Youngest Sibling, and His Family
- ch. 35 Later Years
- ch. 36 Lise's Dear Friend Elisabeth Schiemann
- ch. 37 The Death of Lise.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781399006293
- 1399006290
- OCLC:
- 1249079154
- Publisher Number:
- 99987981541
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