Ruth Lewin Sime
Sacramento City College
23 Papers
164 Citations
Ruth Lewin Sime is an academic researcher from Sacramento City College. The author has contributed to research in topics: Nuclear fission & Fission. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 23 publications.
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Lise Meitner: A Life in Physics
Ruth Lewin Sime
- 01 Jan 1996
TL;DR: Meitner was a pioneer of nuclear physics and co-discoverer, with Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann, of nuclear fission as discussed by the authors, but her career was shattered when she fled Germany, and her scientific reputation was damaged when Hahn took full credit - and the 1944 Nobel Prize - for the work they had done together.
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A Nobel tale of wartime injustice
TL;DR: Recently released documents give the inside story of Otto Hahn's 1944 Nobel prize in chemistry for the discovery of nuclear fission as discussed by the authors, revealing flaws in the award-making process and an attempt to rewrite history.
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Lise Meitner and the discovery of fission
TL;DR: In this article, the life and work of Lise Meitner are discussed and gaps must be filled in and discrepancies explained in order to understand the discovery of fission itself.
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The Politics of Memory: Otto Hahn and the Third Reich
TL;DR: In this article, the Kaiser Wilhelm Society and its successor, the Max Planck Society, from 1946 until 1960, sought to portray science under the Third Reich as a purely intellectual endeavor untainted by National Socialism, focusing on the contrast between his personal stance during National Socialist period, when he distinguished himself as an upright non-Nazi, and his postwar attitude, which was characterized by suppression and denial of Germany's recent past.
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