Lise Meitner: A Life in Physics.

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists | July 1, 1996| | Copyright

By Ruth Lewin Sime University of California Press, 1996 526 pages; $34.95

Ruth Sime has written a superb biography of Lise Meitner, a physicist born and raised in Vienna, who lived and worked in Berlin between 1907 and 1938, and who spent the rest of her life in physical as well as emotional and intellectual exile.

Although Sime focuses on Meitner's substantive contributions to physics, she also explores the struggles of a woman in a man's would at a time when women were considered intruders. But perhaps the most stunning contribution Sime makes is the manner in ...

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