Book ID: CBB000069267

Lise Meitner: A life in physics (1996)

unapi

Sime, Ruth Lewin (Author)


University of California Press


Publication Date: 1996
Physical Details: xiii + 526 pp.; illus.; notes; bibl.; index

Reviewed By

Review Pippard, B. (1996 (Aug. 9)) Review of "Lise Meitner: A life in physics". TLS: Times Literary Supplement (p. 31). unapi

Review Hopper, T. (1996) Review of "Lise Meitner: A life in physics". Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences (p. 195). unapi

Review Gispen, K. (1997) Review of "Lise Meitner: A life in physics". Central European History (pp. 449-53). unapi

Review Widmalm, S. (1997) Review of "Lise Meitner: A life in physics". Lychnos (pp. 342-44). unapi

Review Roqué, X. (1998) Review of "Lise Meitner: A life in physics". History and Technology (pp. 153-56). unapi

Review McLay, D.B. (1999) Review of "Lise Meitner: A life in physics". Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy (pp. 75-94). unapi

Review Radvanyi, P. (1999) Review of "Lise Meitner: A life in physics". Revue d'Histoire des Sciences (pp. 170-73). unapi

Review Ajzenber-Selove, F. (1996) Review of "Lise Meitner: A life in physics". Physics Today (pp. 55-57). unapi

Review Johnson, J.A. (1996) Review of "Lise Meitner: A life in physics". Science (p. 42). unapi

Review Beyler, R.H. (1996) Review of "Lise Meitner: A life in physics". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 746-47). unapi

Review Kauffman, G.B.; Kauffman, L.M. (1997) Review of "Lise Meitner: A life in physics". Angewandte Chemie (pp. 651-52). unapi

Review Rayner-Canham, M.F. (1996) Review of "Lise Meitner: A life in physics". Chemistry in Britain (p. 50). unapi

Review Nye, M.J. (1997) Review of "Lise Meitner: A life in physics". American Historical Review (pp. 1128-29). unapi

Review Gould, P.A. (1998) Review of "Lise Meitner: A life in physics". Gender and History (pp. 166-67). unapi

Citation URI
https://data.isiscb.org/isis/citation/CBB000069267/

Similar Citations

Article Crawford, Elisabeth; Sime, Ruth Lewin; Walker, Mark; (1996)
A Nobel tale of wartime injustice (/isis/citation/CBB000072097/)

Article Nigro, Maria; (2002)
Lise Meitner: donna, ebrea, scienziato (/isis/citation/CBB000502811/)

Article Scheich, Elvira; (1997)
Science, politics, and morality: The relationship of Lise Meitner and Elisabeth Schiemann (/isis/citation/CBB000073334/)

Article Perutz, Max F.; (1997)
Lise Meitner und die Entdeckung der Kernspaltung (/isis/citation/CBB000075885/)

Book Rife, Patricia; (1999)
Lise Meitner and the dawn of the nuclear age. Foreword by John Archibald Wheeler (/isis/citation/CBB000083167/)

Book Kerner, Charlotte; (1998)
Lise, Atomphysikerin: Die Lebensgeschichte der Lise Meitner (/isis/citation/CBB000075753/)

Thesis Yruma, Jeris Stueland; (2008)
How Experiments Are Remembered: The Discovery of Nuclear Fission, 1938--1968 (/isis/citation/CBB001561164/)

Article Sime, Ruth Lewin; (1986)
The discovery of protactinium (/isis/citation/CBB000053952/)

Article Stuewer, Roger H.; (1994)
The origin of the liquid-drop model and the interpretation of nuclear fission (/isis/citation/CBB000043261/)

Article Treumann, Rudolf A.; (1991)
A post-fission perspective of the discovery of nuclear fission (/isis/citation/CBB000029557/)

Article Morgenweck-Lambrinos, Vera; Trömel, Martin; (2001)
Wissenschaft und Legende: eine Nachbetrachtung zu Lise Meitner, Otto Hahn und die Kernspaltung: eine Legende aus unseren Tagen (/isis/citation/CBB000100528/)

Book Sexl, Lore; Hardy, Anne; (2002)
Lise Meitner: Monographie (/isis/citation/CBB000501775/)

Article Brigitte Van Tiggelen; Annette Lykknes; (2019)
A Tale of Resilience: The Periodic Table After Radioactivity and the Discovery of the Neutron (/isis/citation/CBB562606971/)

Article Watkins, Sallie A.; (1983)
Lise Meitner and the beta-ray energy controversy: An historical perspective (/isis/citation/CBB000002672/)

Article Sime, Ruth Lewin; (1998)
Lise Meitner and the discovery of nuclear fission (/isis/citation/CBB000077764/)

Article Karlik, Berta; (1979)
In memoriam Lise Meitner (/isis/citation/CBB000010143/)

Article Lemmerich, Jost; (1993)
Der Nachlass von Lise Meitner in Cambridge (/isis/citation/CBB000058206/)

Authors & Contributors
Sime, Ruth Lewin
Yruma, Jeris Stueland
Weiss, Burghard
Watkins, Sallie A.
Walker, Mark
Voigt, Annette E.
Concepts
Physics
Women in science
Nuclear fission
Biographies
Neutrons
Personality of the scientist
Time Periods
20th century
Places
Germany
Institutions
Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften
Comments

Be the first to comment!

{{ comment.created_by.username }} on {{ comment.created_on | date:'medium' }}

Log in or register to comment