Lise Meitner
Lise Meitner was a pioneer of nuclear physics and codiscoverer, with Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassman, of nuclear fission. She was a brilliant woman whose extraordinary life illustrates not only the dramatic scientific progress but also the injustice and destruction that marked the twentieth century. Braving the sexism of the scientific world, she joined the prestigious Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry and became a prominent member of the international physics community. Her career was shattered when she fled Nazi Germany for Stockholm in 1938, at which time Hahn took full credit - and the 1944 Nobel Prize - for the work they had done together on nuclear fission. This is a collection of previously unpublished archival material about the postwar nuclear age.

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