8vo (23.5 cm), XIII, 526 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (minor shelf-wear). A captivating biography that illuminates the remarkable life and scientific contributions of Lise Meitner, a pioneering physicist of the 20th century. Ruth Lewin Sime delves into the personal and professional journey of Lise Meitner, from her early days as a student in Vienna to her collaborations with Otto Hahn and the discovery of nuclear fission. Sime highlights Meitner's perseverance in a field dominated by men and her significant contributions to the understanding of atomic physics. Through meticulous research and interviews,the book unveils the challenges and triumphs that Meitner faced as a Jewish woman in science, including her escape from Nazi Germany and her struggles for recognition and equality in a male-dominated scientific community.

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Titel

Lise Meitner: A Life in Physics

Verlag

University of California Press

Erscheinungsjahr

1996

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN-10

0520089065

ISBN-13

9780520089068

Einband

Hardcover

Zustand

Fine

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Lise Meitner (1878-1968) was a pioneer of nuclear physics and codiscoverer, with Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann, of nuclear fission. Of Jewish origin, she fled Nazi Germany for Stockholm in 1938 and later moved to Cambridge, England. Ruth Sime's absorbing book is the definitive biography of Lise Meitner, the story of a brilliant woman whose extra-ordinary life illustrates not only the dramatic scientific progress but also the injustice and destruction that have marked the twentieth century. A shy girl, Meitner grew up to be a renowned scientist. 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. 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. Sime uses primary archival material, much of it unpublished, to show Meitner's interaction with her illustrious contemporaries, including Planck, Bohr, Einstein, Fermi, van Laue, and Franck. In Meitner's letters and personal papers we hear her speak for herself about science, the rise of Nazism, Holocaust atrocities, and the postwar nuclear age. She refused to work on the Allied atomic bomb and was greatly concerned about nuclear weapons after the war. When Lise Meitner died in England at the age of ninety she was a solitary figure, betrayed by her friend and collaborator Hahn, but still passionate about physics. In the year following the fiftieth anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, the story of this remarkable woman has particular resonance.

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Ruth Lewin Sime is on the chemistry faculty at Sacramento City College. She co-wrote and narrated a BBC-TV program on Lise Meitner, A Gift From Heaven, which was named one of the best science programs of the year by The Royal Society in 1992.

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