Physics, Race and Gender: Lise Meitner and the Discovery of Nuclear Fission

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Physics, Race and Gender: Lise Meitner and the Discovery of Nuclear Fission

The discovery of nuclear fission took place in Berlin at the end of 1938, and the Nobel Prize for the discovery was awarded to the chemist Otto Hahn in 1945. Because the award excluded the physicist Lise Meitner, it has always been controversial, raising questions about the fairness and competency of the Nobel decisions. Our speaker, Ruth Lewin Sime, will outline the interdisciplinary collaboration of Meitner, Hahn, and Fritz Strassmann in Berlin that culminated in the fission discovery, showing how Meitner’s forced emigration from Germany distorted the scientific attribution for the discovery and led Hahn to deny that Meitner and physics had contributed to it. In discussing the Nobel decisions to award a prize only to Hahn, and not to Meitner, Strassmann, or Otto Robert Frisch, with whom Meitner devised the first theoretical interpretation of the fission process, Professor Sime will examine Meitner’s situation as a woman and a foreigner in Swedish exile and her difficult experience with the Swedish physicist Manne Siegbahn.


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  • Date: 01 Oct 2021
  • Time: 04:00 PM to 06:00 PM
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  • Starts 30 July 2021 01:56 PM
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Ruth Lewin Sime Ruth Lewin Sime

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Physics, Race, and Gender: Lise Meitner and the Discovery of Nuclear Fission

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Ruth Lewin Sime is a physical chemist who taught chemistry for over thirty years at Sacramento City College in California.  She is the author of the award-winning biography, Lise Meitner: A Life in Physics, and has taken part in several documentary films about Meitner.  Currently Ruth is working on a biographical study of Otto Hahn during and after the Nazi period in Germany.

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Agenda

4:00 PM - Welcome and Introductions, Chapter business update; break

4:10 PM - Technical Talk/Presentation

5:15 PM - Q & A

5:45 PM - Wrap Up 

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