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Overview"This is an account of the drama surrounding the discovery of nuclear fission, which led directly to the development of the first atomic bomb by the Allies. The female physicist at the heart of the discovery was Lise Meitner (1878-1968), the first woman to earn a PhD in physics at the University of Vienna, a pioneer in the research of radioactive processes, and together with her nephew Otto R. Frisch, an interpreter of the process of nuclear fission in 1938. She was a colleague and friend of many of the ""giants"" of 20th century physics: Max Planck, Albert Einstein, Max von Laue, and Niels Bohr amongst others. In 1945, her long-term partner Otto Hahn alone was awarded the Nobel Prize for work in which Meitner was directly involved before her secret escape from Nazi Germany. In this biography, the author interprets both the life and time of Lise Meitner, providing a background to the scientific discoveries and social milieu which affected the research, events, personalities, and politics of 20th century quantum physics." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Patricia Rife , John Archibald WheelerPublisher: Birkhauser Verlag AG Imprint: Birkhauser Verlag AG ISBN: 9783764337322ISBN 10: 376433732 Pages: 448 Publication Date: March 1998 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Replaced By: 9780817637323 Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsChoosing the path of physics; Berlin; new explorations at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute; World War I and its conseqeunces; science in Nazi Germany; the transuranic maze; escape from Nazi Germany; chain reaction - the dawn of the nuclear age; the news of fission spreads; secrecy and code names; the dark days of war; the atomic bomb, a trip to Washington, and the Nobel Prize controversy; epilogue - what scientists will make of this newly found knowledge. (Part contents)ReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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