Join Us for a virtual Giants in Science Program to celebrarte Women's History Month
LISE MEITNER -
A PHYSICS LOVE STORY
Lise Meitner, born into a Jewish family, was an Austrian and later
Swedish physicist who worked on radioactivity and nuclear physics. She was one
of the great experimentalists of her day. Einstein dubbed her “Our German
Madame Curie” during their Berlin heyday in the roaring 1920’s.
Edward Sierra will offer an engaging and informative presentation
about the life and science of Meitner, who is the unsung hero of nuclear
fission, having played an essential role in its 1938 discovery. That year, when
Hitler’s rise to power put all Jewish scientists at risk, Meitner made a daring
escape out of Germany. She faced both gender and racial discrimination yet
never ceased to pursue her work, the science that was the passion of her
life.
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