Lise Meitner: A Life in Physics by Ruth Lewin Sime

Lise Meitner: A Life in Physics

Ruth Lewin Sime

540 pages first pub 1996 (editions)

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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...

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