The Woman Who Split the Atom The Life of Lise Meitner

Cover — Title Page — Copyright Page — Dedication — Contents — One: Dreams of the Impossible — Two: Education At Last! — Three: A Professor with No Profession — Four: A Partnership Better than Marriage — Five: The New Science of Radioactivity — Six: Out of the Dark — Seven: War and Science — Eight: Back in the Lab — Nine: After the War — Ten: A Professor at Last — Eleven: “Jewish” Physics vs “Aryan” Physics — Twelve: Hitler Takes Power — Thirteen: Boycott the Jews! — Fourteen: A Talk With Hitler About Science — Fifteen: To Go or To Stay — Sixteen: The Nazification of Science — Seventeen: Can It Get Worse? — Eighteen: The New Radioactive Physics — Nineteen: The Jewess Must Go — Twenty: Passport Problems — Twenty-One: How to Smuggle a Scientist — Twenty-Two: Success or Failure? — Twenty-Three: A Narrow Escape — Twenty-Four: A Brilliant Enough Physicist? — Twenty-Five: An Atomic Mystery — Twenty-Six: The Atom Splits! — Twenty-Seven: The Impossible Is Possible! — Twenty-Eight: The Power of Nuclear Fission — Twenty-Nine: A Letter from Einstein — Thirty: The Race for the Bomb — Thirty-One: A Lab of One’s Own — Thirty-Two: Another Physicist Escapes — Thirty-Three: The German Nuclear Program — Thirty-Four: What to do With Nazi Scientists? — Thirty-Five: The Mother of the Bomb — Thirty-Six: The Americans did What?! — Thirty-Seven: Meitner in America — Thirty-Eight: The Nobel Prize for Nuclear Fission Goes To — Thirty-Nine: After The War: Working for Nuclear Peace — Forty: A Prize of her Own — Afterword — Author’s Note — Timeline of Meitner’s Life and Achievements — Glossary of Select Terms in Physics — Profiles of Scientists Mentioned — Notes — Select Bibliography — Image Credits — Acknowledgments — Index of Searchable Terms.