Lise Meitner and the Dawn of the Nuclear Age

1999. 2. Printing 2006 Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-8176-4559-5
Verlag: Birkhauser Boston

Buch, Englisch, 432 Seiten, Format (B × H): 177 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 1810 g

In this captivating biography, Patricia Rife interprets both the life and times of Lise Meitner (1878-1968), the female physicist at the heart of the discovery of nuclear fission. She was a colleague and friend of many of the giants of 20th century physics: M. Planck, her Berlin mentor, A. Einstein, M. von Laue, Madame M. Curie, J. Chadwick, W. Pauli, and N. Bohr. Meitner was the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in physics at the University of Vienna, a pioneer in the research of radioactive processes and, together with her nephew Otto Robert Frisch, an interpreter of the process of nuclear fission in 1938. Yet at the end of World War II, her colleague of thirty years, radiochemist Otto Hahn alone was awarded the 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the "discovery" of nuclear fission -- a discovery based on years of research in which Meitner was directly involved before her secret escape from Nazi Germany.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rife, Patricia

Weitere Mitwirkende

Wheeler, J.A.

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein Geschichte der Physik
• Naturwissenschaften Chemie Physikalische Chemie Nuklearchemie, Photochemie, Strahlenchemie
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematik Allgemein Populäre Darstellungen der Mathematik
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Quantenphysik Kernphysik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Populärwissenschaftliche Werke
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Human- und Sozialwissenschaften
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Choosing the Path of Physics: 1878–1906.- Berlin: 1907–1909.- New Explorations at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute: 1909–1914.- World War I and Its Consequences: 1914–1920.- Shadows Lengthen: The Struggle Out of the Causal Chain, 1920–1932.- Science in Nazi Germany: 1933–1936.- The Transuranic Maze: 1934–1938.- Escape from Nazi Germany: 1938.- The Discovery and Interpretation of Fission: 1938.- The News of Fission Spreads: 1939.- Chain Reaction and the Dawn of the Nuclear Age: 1939.- Secrecy and Code Names: War Research Surrounding Nuclear Fission, 1939–1942.- The Dark Days of War: 1941–1945.- The Atomic Bomb, a Trip to Washington, and the Nobel Prize Controversy: 1945–1946.- Epilogue.