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Article: A Troubled Life in Science.(Review)
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- Queen's Quarterly
- Article date:
- March 22, 2001
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In the amazing years of the early nuclear age, scientific pioneers like Lise Meitner gradually unlocked the secret of existence at the most profound physical level -- that of the atom. Given the obstacles, their achievement remain astonishing. But for Meitner, there were additional barriers. As a woman in the early twentieth century, she first had to struggle simply to be taken seriously as a scientist; later, when categorized as a "non-Aryan," she would become keenly aware that as humanity drew nearer to an understanding of the building blocks of our world, we were ever more imperilled by our own capacity for total destruction.
LISE MEITNER AND THE DAWN OF THE ...