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Lise Meitner [[electronic resource] ] : a life in physics / / Ruth Lewin Sime
| Lise Meitner [[electronic resource] ] : a life in physics / / Ruth Lewin Sime |
| Autore | Sime Ruth Lewin <1939-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 1997, c1996 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (564 p.) |
| Disciplina |
530/.092
B |
| Collana | California studies in the history of science |
| Soggetto topico | Women physicists - Austria |
| Soggetto non controllato |
20th century
biographical career chemistry concentration camp female scientist feminism feminist injustice intellectual property jewish heritage jewish women judaism nazi germany nobel prize nuclear fission nuclear physics refugee role model scientific sexism sexist strong women true story women in history women in stem women in the workforce world history |
| ISBN |
0-585-05524-6
0-520-91899-1 9786613622723 1-280-59289-3 |
| Classificazione | UB 3231 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- 1. Girlhood in Vienna -- 2. Beginnings in Berlin -- 3. The First World War -- 4. Professor in the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut -- 5. Experimental Nuclear Physics -- 6. Under the Third Reich -- 7. Toward the Discovery of Nuclear Fission -- 8. Escape -- 9. Exile in Stockholm -- 10. The Discovery of Nuclear Fission -- 11. Priorities -- 12. Again, World War -- 13. War Against Memory -- 14. Suppressing the Past -- 15. No Return -- 16. Final Journeys -- Appendix -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778643703321 |
Sime Ruth Lewin <1939->
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| Berkeley, : University of California Press, 1997, c1996 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Lise Meitner : a life in physics / / Ruth Lewin Sime
| Lise Meitner : a life in physics / / Ruth Lewin Sime |
| Autore | Sime Ruth Lewin <1939-> |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 1997, c1996 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (564 p.) |
| Disciplina |
530/.092
B |
| Collana | California studies in the history of science |
| Soggetto topico | Women physicists - Austria |
| Soggetto non controllato |
20th century
biographical career chemistry concentration camp female scientist feminism feminist injustice intellectual property jewish heritage jewish women judaism nazi germany nobel prize nuclear fission nuclear physics refugee role model scientific sexism sexist strong women true story women in history women in stem women in the workforce world history |
| ISBN |
0-585-05524-6
0-520-91899-1 9786613622723 1-280-59289-3 |
| Classificazione | UB 3231 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- 1. Girlhood in Vienna -- 2. Beginnings in Berlin -- 3. The First World War -- 4. Professor in the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut -- 5. Experimental Nuclear Physics -- 6. Under the Third Reich -- 7. Toward the Discovery of Nuclear Fission -- 8. Escape -- 9. Exile in Stockholm -- 10. The Discovery of Nuclear Fission -- 11. Priorities -- 12. Again, World War -- 13. War Against Memory -- 14. Suppressing the Past -- 15. No Return -- 16. Final Journeys -- Appendix -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNISA-996248190803316 |
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Sime Ruth Lewin <1939->
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| Berkeley, : University of California Press, 1997, c1996 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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Prematurity in scientific discovery [[electronic resource] ] : on resistance and neglect / / edited by Ernest B. Hook
| Prematurity in scientific discovery [[electronic resource] ] : on resistance and neglect / / edited by Ernest B. Hook |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2002 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (399 p.) |
| Disciplina | 509 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | HookErnest B. <1936-> |
| Soggetto topico |
Discoveries in science
Science - Philosophy |
| Soggetto non controllato |
archibald garrod
bacteria darwin earth sciences elements evolution evolutionary biology expanding universe gene transfer gene transmission genetics gunther stent ida noddack joseph adams natural selection nuclear fission philosophy of science physics polanyi political science prematurity research science scientific change scientific discovery scientific leap scientific method scientific theory scientists scotoma scurvy social science surface adsorption transuranium actinide elements |
| ISBN |
0-520-92773-7
9786612356728 1-282-35672-0 1-59734-830-9 |
| Classificazione | TB 4000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- 1. A Background to Prematurity and Resistance to "Discovery" -- 2. Prematurity in Scientific Discovery -- 3. Prematurity, Nuclear Fission, and the Transuranium Actinide Elements -- 4. Resistance to Change and New Ideas in Physics: A Personal Perspective -- 5. The Timeliness of the Discoveries of the Three Modes of Gene Transfer in Bacteria -- 6. Scotoma: Forgetting and Neglect in Science -- 7. Prematurity and Delay in the Prevention of Scurvy -- 8. A Triptych to Serendip: Prematurity and Resistance to Discovery in the Earth Sciences -- 9. Theories of an Expanding Universe: Implications of Their Reception for the Concept of Scientific Prematurity -- 10. Interdisciplinary Dissonance and Prematurity: Ida Noddack's Suggestion of Nuclear Fission -- 11. Michael Polanyi's Theory of Surface Adsorption: How Premature? -- 12. Prematurity and the Dynamics of Scientific Change -- 13. Barbara McClintock's Controlling Elements: Premature Discovery or Stillborn Theory? -- 14. The Work of Joseph Adams and Archibald Garrod: Possible Examples of Prematurity in Human Genetics -- 15. The Prematurity of Darwin's Theory of Natural Selection -- 16. Prematurity, Evolutionary Biology, and the Historical Sciences -- 17. The Prematurity of "Prematurity" in Political Science -- 18. The Impact and Fate of Gunther Stent's Prematurity Thesis -- 19. Premature Discovery Is Failure of Intersection among Social Worlds -- 20. Fleck, Kuhn, and Stent: Loose Reflections on the Notion of Prematurity -- 21. The Concept of Prematurity and the Philosophy of Science -- 22. Prematurity and Promise: Why Was Stent's Notion of Prematurity Itself So Premature? -- 23. Reflections on Hull's Remarks -- 24. Comments -- 25. Extensions and Complexities: In Defense of Prematurity in Scientific Discovery |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910780079603321 |
| Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2002 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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