Lise Meitner in Sweden 1938-1960: Exile from physics
Abstract
Lise Meitner fled Germany for Sweden in 1938. Her professional difficulties in Stockholm coupled with her exclusion from the discovery of fission diminished her ability to work, damaged her reputation and, in the opinion of many of her contemporaries, kept her from a Nobel prize.
- Publication:
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American Journal of Physics
- Pub Date:
- August 1994
- DOI:
- 10.1119/1.17498
- Bibcode:
- 1994AmJPh..62..695S
- Keywords:
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- 01.60.+q;
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