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Lise Meitner : A Life in Physics
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Lise Meitner : A Life in Physics Paperback - 1997

by Sime, Ruth Lewin

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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. This "riveting and masterful account of a scientist's devotion to physics . . . blends . . science and history with seamless ease" (Marcia Bartusiak, "Washington Post Book World"). 32 photos.

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  • Title Lise Meitner : A Life in Physics
  • Author Sime, Ruth Lewin
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 2nd printing
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 540
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of California Press, Ewing, New Jersey, U.S.A.
  • Date 1997-06-27
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GRP30042041
  • ISBN 9780520208605 / 0520208609
  • Weight 1.62 lbs (0.73 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.06 x 6.04 x 1.44 in (23.01 x 15.34 x 3.66 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 95035246
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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From the publisher

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.

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Lise Meitner was born in Vienna in 1878, the third child of Hedwig and Philipp Meitner.

From the rear cover

"Deprived of the Nobel Prize she so clearly deserved for her contribution to the discovery of nuclear fission, Lise Meitner has never been given the attention she deserves in the history of twentieth-century physics. Now, with grace, style, and great authority, Ruth Sime sets the record straight."--Susan Quinn, author of Marie Curie: A Life

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Citations

  • New York Times, 08/17/1997, Page 24

About the author

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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