Lise Meitner and the dawn of the nuclear age

Patricia Rife ; foreword by John Archibald Wheeler

This is an account of the drama surrounding the discovery of nuclear fission, which led directly to the development of the first atomic bomb by the Allies. The female physicist at the heart of the discovery was Lise Meitner (1878-1968), the first woman to earn a PhD in physics at the University of Vienna, a pioneer in the research of radioactive processes, and together with her nephew Otto R. Frisch, an interpreter of the process of nuclear fission in 1938. She was a colleague and friend of many of the "giants" of 20th century physics: Max Planck, Albert Einstein, Max von Laue, and Niels Bohr amongst others. In 1945, her long-term partner Otto Hahn alone was awarded the Nobel Prize for work in which Meitner was directly involved before her secret escape from Nazi Germany. In this biography, the author interprets both the life and time of Lise Meitner, providing a background to the scientific discoveries and social milieu which affected the research, events, personalities, and politics of 20th century quantum physics.

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[目次]

  • Choosing the path of physics
  • Berlin
  • new explorations at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute
  • World War I and its conseqeunces
  • science in Nazi Germany
  • the transuranic maze
  • escape from Nazi Germany
  • chain reaction - the dawn of the nuclear age
  • the news of fission spreads
  • secrecy and code names
  • the dark days of war
  • the atomic bomb, a trip to Washington, and the Nobel Prize controversy
  • epilogue - what scientists will make of this newly found knowledge. (Part contents)

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書名 Lise Meitner and the dawn of the nuclear age
著作者等 Rife, Patricia
Wheeler, John Archibald
出版元 Birkhäuser
刊行年月 c1999
ページ数 xviii, 432 p., [19] p. of plates
大きさ 25 cm
ISBN 376433732X
081763732X
NCID BA41113147
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言語 英語
出版国 アメリカ合衆国
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