Book Details

Lise Meitner and the Dawn of the Nuclear Age

Publication year: 2007

: 978-0-8176-4563-2

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This book documenting the extraordinary life of an aspiring woman scientist whose life was filled with adversity. Surviving both World Wars and gender discrimination, Meitner was a pioneer at the forefront of her discipline involving the study of radio-elements and nuclear fission.


: Physics and Astronomy, History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics, Physics History, Nuclear physics, Nuclear physicists, Women physicists