Lise Meitner and the Dawn of the Nuclear Age.(Review)(Brief Article)

The Antioch Review | March 22, 2000| | Copyright

Lise Meitner and the Dawn of the Nuclear Age by Patricia Rife, Foreword by John Archibald Wheeler. Birkhauser, 432 pp., $39.95. The dramatic tale of the discovery of nuclear fission on the eve of World War II has been told before, but never with such attention to the barriers formed by gender and racial discrimination. Lise Meitner (1878-1968), the co-discoverer of nuclear fission, was one of the first European women to forge an eminent career in physical science. Rife recounts Meitner's struggle to become a scientist, from the difficulty of preparing for entrance to the ...

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