Lise Meitner : a life in physics /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©1996.
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| Series: | California studies in the history of science ;
v. 13 |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title; Lise Meitner; A CENTENNIAL BOOK; Copyright; CONTENTS; PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; 1. Girlhood in Vienna; 2. Beginnings in Berlin; 3. The First World War; 4. Professor in the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut; 5. Experimental Nuclear Physics; 6. Under the Third Reich; 7. Toward the Discovery of Nuclear Fission; 8. Escape; 9. Exile in Stockholm; 10. The Discovery of Nuclear Fission; 11. Priorities; 12. Again, World War; 13. War Against Memory; 14. Suppressing the Past; 15. No Return; 16. Final Journeys; APPENDIX; ABBREVIATIONS; NOTES; SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.