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245 00 The Path to Nuclear Fission|h[electronic resource] /|cby
Rosemarie Reed
260 New York, NY :|bFilmakers Library,|c2006.
300 1 online resource (57 min.)
306 005625
520 This absorbing film details the story of a brilliant
Jewish woman, Lise Meitner, who made scientific history
when she and her collaborator, Otto Hahn, discovered
nuclear fission in 1938. Yet her forced emigration from
Nazi Germany meant that Otto Hahn would never credit her
contribution when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1944.
Lise Meitner, a shy young physics student from Vienna, and
the worldly Otto Hahn, a chemist, became close friends and
colleagues in 1907. At the time, the nature of atoms and
elements was still poorly understood. Their collaboration
benefited from their separate disciplines. Meitner and
Hahn's first period of joint research culminated in their
discovery of the "missing" radioactive element,
protactinium, in 1918. Meitner was a pioneer in the field
that became known as nuclear physics. She published the
first theoretical interpretation of the fission process,
calculated the enormous energy released and coined the
name "fission" which was instantly accepted by the physics
community. Lise Meitner became prominent within a circle
of colleagues that included Einstein, Max Planck, and
Niels Bohr. Although their names became household words,
few people know of her contributions.
546 In English.
600 14 Meitner, Lise
600 14 Hahn, Otto
650 4 Social Sciences -- Religion & Thought -- Persecution,
Conflict, and War
650 4 Sciences
700 1 Reed, Rosemarie|4drt
700 1 Reed, Rosemarie|4pro
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