A Review Essay: "Lise Meitner and the Dawn of the Nuclear Age", by Patricia Rife

A recently published book by Patricia Rife "Lise Meitner and Dawn of Nuclear Era" (Boston: Birkh \ "{a} User, 1999) commented on non-specialized readers in the article, At the heart was the most exciting frontier of science In order to build her own career she had to overcome serious prejudice against women in science and academia, it was an important participation in the discovery of fission , But did not share the Nobel Prize her collaborator Otto Khan received in 1945. Together, how they fit into evolution Meitner's social conscience and war The hatred towards is a few attractive themes discussed in this book and is covered in this article.

Lise Meitner: In Physical Life, after being born in Vienna in 1878, Ruth Sime began to follow the lives of physicist Lise Meitner. Mitner's career has exceeded the golden age of physics. She studied at Ludwig Bormain in Vienna, worked at Max Planck in Berlin and was assisted by Niels Bohr during World War II. In her life she was communicating with and working with many other well-known scientists: Albert Einstein, Werner Heisenberg, Mary Curie, Otto Hearn and James Chadwick

A recently published book by Patricia Rife "Lise Meitner and Dawn of Nuclear Era" (Boston: Birkh \ "{a} User, 1999) commented on non-specialized readers in the article, At the heart was the most exciting frontier of science In order to build her own career she had to overcome serious prejudice against women in science and academia, it was an important participation in the discovery of fission , But did not share the Nobel Prize her collaborator Otto Khan received in 1945. Together, how they fit into evolution Meitner's social conscience and war The hatred towards is a few attractive themes discussed in this book and is covered in this article.