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Article: Lise Meitner: A Life in Physics

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LISE MEITNER: A LIFE IN PHYSICS By Ruth Lewin Sime University of California Press, $34.95

There is a famous collection of scientific instruments--uranium samples, lead vessels, Geiger counters--displayed at the Deutsches Museum in Munich. The exhibit celebrates the discovery of nuclear fission, for which Otto Hahn was awarded the 1944 Nobel Prize in chemistry. A plaque reading "Worktable of Otto Hahn hung above the display for 37 years. Hahn was one of Germany's postwar heroes: a nationalist but not a Nazi, a nuclear scientist untainted by any association with the atomic bomb.

Under pressure from women's groups, in 1990 the name of Hahn's partner was finally added to he label. In 1944 Lise ...

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