Lise Meitner : a life in physics /
Traces the life of Jewish physicist Lise Meitner, who had to flee Nazi Germany, codiscovered nuclear fission with Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann, but was denied recognition when the work received a Nobel Prize.
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[1996]
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| Series: | California studies in the history of science ;
v. 13. |
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Table of Contents:
- Girlhood in Vienna
- Beginnings in Berlin
- The First World War
- Professor in the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut
- Experimental nuclear physics
- Under the Third Reich
- Toward the discovery of nuclear fission
- Escape
- Exile in Stockholm
- The discovery of nuclear fission
- Priorities
- Again, world war
- War against memory
- Suppressing the past
- No return
- Final journeys.