Description: Fission Girl: Lise Meitner's Escape from Nazi Germany and Her Role in the Manhattan Project Author: Melanie Fine Title: Fission Girl: Lise Meitner's Escape from Nazi Germany and Her Role in the Manhattan Project Publication: Independently published, 2017 Description: Paperback. New softcover in matte printed wraps. Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. 128 pp.Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. New. On March 12, 1938, German troops crossed over the Austrian border to welcoming cheers and adulation. In one instant, Lise Meitner's veil of protection, her Austrian citizenship, disappeared. Lise Meitner, though she had converted to Protestantism, was born Jewish, and that's all that mattered. Her lifelong collaborator Otto Hahn, concerned both for her and his standing at the institute, sought the advice of Heinrich Horlein, overseeing treasurer of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, returning with the news that Lise had to leave the institute immediately, never to return. Scientists outside of Germany, realizing Lise's desperate position, sent letters requesting her lectureship abroad, a pretense to get her out of the country. Lise Meitner was a physicist who by this time had already been recognized for her vast contributions to the world of physics, in addition to discovering, along with Otto Hahn, the element protactinium, and the two of them were now working on something far greater.Niels Bohr, the Danish physicist who developed the orbital model of the atom, was alarmed enough after personally visiting with Lise in Germany, that he wrote to physicists across Europe to find or make a position for her - anything.Lise's application for a passport to leave Germany was rejected. Meanwhile, on July 4, 1938 Carl Bosch found out that Germany's borders were going to be closed imminently. Lise had to leave now if she were going to leave at allThis book Fission Girl, is the story of Lise Meitner, her escape from Nazi Germany, her discovery of nuclear fission and her role in the Manhattan Project. Seller ID: 100944 Subject: Europe , Historical Biographies , Memoirs and Biographies , STEM, War The Anthropologists Closet offers a wide variety of non-fiction academic books that are hard to find. We have been in business since 2014. Terms All orders ship within two business days. All items are guaranteed to be as described or they may be returned within 30 days of receipt for a full refund.This listing was created by Bibliopolis.
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Author: Melanie Fine
Publisher: Independently published
Year Printed: 2017
Binding: Softcover, Wraps
Language: English
Subject: History
