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Lise Meitner: A Life in Physics (Volume 11) Paperback - 1997
by Sime, Ruth Lewin 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 (Volume 11)
- Author Sime, Ruth Lewin 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 # 0520208609.G
- 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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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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- New York Times, 08/17/1997, Page 24