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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 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

Women physicists --- Physicists --- Women in physics --- Women physical scientists --- Biography. --- Meitner, Lise, --- Biography --- Meitner, Lise --- Women physicists - Austria - Biography

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In the 116 year history of the Nobel Prize in Physics, only two women have won the award; Marie Curie (1903) and Maria Mayer (1963). During the 60 years between those awards, several women did work of similar calibre. This book focuses on those women, providing biographies for each that discuss both how they made their discoveries and the gender-specific reception of those discoveries. It also discusses the Nobel process and how society and the scientific community's treatment of them were influenced by their gender.

Women physicists --- Physics. --- General & Introductory Physics. --- Payne-Gaposchkin, Cecilia, --- Meitner, Lise, --- Wu, C. S. --- Mayer, Maria Goeppert,

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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 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.

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Sociology of occupations --- Academic sector --- Biographical details --- Book --- Dietrich, Amalie --- Huch, Ricarda --- Schlözer, Dorothea --- Herschel, Caroline Lucretia --- Erxleben, Dorothea --- Gleim, Betty --- Hirschfeld-Tiburtius, Henriette --- Noether, Emmy --- Merian, Maria Sibylla --- Meitner, Lise --- Wrangell, von, Margarete --- Germany