I came back to Meitner thirty years later, in the 1970s, by way of a class I taught at California State University, Sacramento. To me, she was a hero, like Eleanor Roosevelt. When I was six, the details didn't matter. In America just after World War II, Lise Meitner was a celebrity: the tiny woman who barely escaped the Nazis, the physicist responsible for nuclear fission, the Jewish mother of the atomic bomb-although she was a Jew by birth, not affiliation, and she had refused to work on the bomb. As a child I must have seen her picture in Life, or in The New York Times, or perhaps in the Aufbau, the German refugees' newspaper that my parents and grandmother often read. It seems to me that I have always known of Lise Meitner. Professor in the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institutħ. The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of ANSI/NISO Includes bibliographical references and index.ġ. Lise Meitner : a life in physics / Ruth Lewin Sime. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The Regents of the University of California The publisher gratefully acknowledges the contribution provided by the General Endowment Fund of the Associates of the University of California Press.Ĭalifornia Studies in the History of Science, Volume 13
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