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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 physi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sime, Ruth Lewin, 1939-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1996.
Colección:California studies in the history of science ; v. 13.
Temas:
Meitner, Lise, > 1878-1968.
Meitner, Lise, > 1878-1968
Women physicists > Austria > Biography.
Physiciennes > Autriche > Biographies.
SCIENCE > Physics > General.
SCIENCE > Mechanics > General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Science & Technology.
SCIENCE > Energy.
SCIENCE > General.
Women physicists
Austria
Physics.
Austria.
Electronic book.
Biography
Biographies
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Title; Lise Meitner; A CENTENNIAL BOOK; Copyright; 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.

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