The Resource Lise Meitner : a life in physics, Ruth Lewin Sime
Lise Meitner : a life in physics, Ruth Lewin Sime
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The item Lise Meitner : a life in physics, Ruth Lewin Sime represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in San Francisco Public Library.
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- Summary
- "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"--Publisher description
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xiii, 526 p.
- Note
- "A centennial book."
- Contents
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- Girlhood in Vienna
- Beginnings in Berlin
- The First World War
- Professor in the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut
- Experimental nuclear physics
- Under the Third Reich
- Toward the discovery of nuclear fission
- Escape
- Exile in Stockholm
- The discovery of nuclear fission
- Priorities
- Again, world war
- War against memory
- Suppressing the past
- No return
- Final journeys
- Isbn
- 9780520089068
- Label
- Lise Meitner : a life in physics
- Title
- Lise Meitner
- Title remainder
- a life in physics
- Statement of responsibility
- Ruth Lewin Sime
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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"--Publisher description
- Biography type
- individual biography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1939-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Sime, Ruth Lewin
- Dewey number
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- 530/.092
- B
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- QC774.M4
- LC item number
- S56 1996
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Series statement
- California studies in the history of science
- Series volume
- v. 13
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Meitner, Lise
- Women physicists
- Label
- Lise Meitner : a life in physics, Ruth Lewin Sime
- Note
- "A centennial book."
- Bar code
- 31223043281444
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 505-512) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Girlhood in Vienna -- Beginnings in Berlin -- The First World War -- Professor in the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut -- Experimental nuclear physics -- Under the Third Reich -- Toward the discovery of nuclear fission -- Escape -- Exile in Stockholm -- The discovery of nuclear fission -- Priorities -- Again, world war -- War against memory -- Suppressing the past -- No return -- Final journeys
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- xiii, 526 p.
- Isbn
- 9780520089068
- Isbn Type
- (alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 95035246
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- ill.
- System control number
- 32893857
- Label
- Lise Meitner : a life in physics, Ruth Lewin Sime
- Note
- "A centennial book."
- Bar code
- 31223043281444
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 505-512) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Girlhood in Vienna -- Beginnings in Berlin -- The First World War -- Professor in the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut -- Experimental nuclear physics -- Under the Third Reich -- Toward the discovery of nuclear fission -- Escape -- Exile in Stockholm -- The discovery of nuclear fission -- Priorities -- Again, world war -- War against memory -- Suppressing the past -- No return -- Final journeys
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- xiii, 526 p.
- Isbn
- 9780520089068
- Isbn Type
- (alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 95035246
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- ill.
- System control number
- 32893857
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