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... Lise Meitner ^{1 , 2} was born in 1878 in Vienna. Her schooling was typical of that for girls: up to 14 years of age, emphasizing “female” subjects. Austria, however, was liberalizing, allowing women, with some restrictions, to enter universities. Initially, she...

... revealing the educational potential of such an interface. This means that in view of the perspectives defended here, this chapter intends to propose a theoretical framework by combining SSI and HP in the physics teaching. As an example to apply this theoretical framework, a short narrative on Lise Meitner's...

... , 2014 ). Matthews , M. , Sci. Educ.   1 , 11 – 47 ( 1992 ). 10.1007/BF00430208 Meitner , L. , Interview with Lise Meitner . [Interview with Archives for the History of Quantum Physics project] Carried out by Otto Frisch and Thomas Kuhn . Cambridge, England ( 1963...

... from “truths” so obvious, or settled by authority, that no one was thinking to question them. Ibn al-Haytham led one, overturning settled ideas about light; Galileo another, about absolute rest and motion; Meitner another, about immutable elements. The revolutions often entailed showing some...

... of color, and those with divergent ideas feeling that they donot belong” (ibid., p. 12). ¹⁵ The pioneering work on the systematic under-recognition of female scientists was made by Margaret Rossiter. One of the best known examples of this is the Austrian-Swedish physicist Lise Meitner...

... ), 26 – 33 ( 1997 ). 10.1063/1.881933 Syme , R. L. , Lise Meitner, A Life in Physics ( University of California Press , Berkeley , 1996 ). ...

... It hardly needs to be said that gender plays a role in the lives of female physicists. Some of their experiences are unique; others they have in common. For Chien-Shung Wu, ¹ there turn out to be striking parallels (and “anti-parallels”) with the life of Lise Meitner (Chap. 20). Wu...

... not know he had done this until much later when Lise Meitner recognized what was happening (Chap. 20). Slow neutron bombardment could not only cause certain nuclei to decay but also to emit more neutrons as a result, which then bombarded other nuclei, which decayed, producing more neutrons, which...

... Emmy Noether ¹ was born in 1882 in Erlangen, Bavaria, German Empire. She originally planned to teach French and English (cf. Meitner, Chap. 20, and Wu, Chap. 23) but switched to mathematics. Completing her dissertation in 1907, she spent the next seven years teaching without pay, until...

... names they recognize: Marie Curie of course but almost never Caroline Herschel, Emmy Noether, Lise Meitner, Chien-Shung Wu, Maria Goeppert-Mayer, Cecilia Payne-Gaposhkin, Margaret Burbidge, or Vera Rubin. It is time their stories were told. The book is not a compendium of biographies. Our focus...

.... Boltzmann the teacher was regarded with admiration and affection. His student Lise Meitner (see Chap. 20) had this to say: During his life, Boltzmann was a professor at several universities: Graz, Vienna, Leipzig, and Munich, bouncing back and forth a bit. The titles of his appointments were unusually...

... impressive that he was ordered to lead the German nuclear research program after the start of World War II in 1939. Lise Meitner (Chap. 20), Otto Hahn, Otto Robert Frisch, and Fritz Strassman led a small group of scientists who first discovered the nuclear fission of uranium. Their results were published...

... Meitner and Otto Frisch involves one of those moments and is fascinating to read. ⁶ As a coach, two swimmers I worked with had a eureka moment that stands out. The distance swimmers I coached had been close to breaking the school record in the 500-yard freestyle for a few weeks. When...

... up like a historical character from physics (Hypatia, Emilie du Chatelet, Marie Curie, Lise Meitner, Irène Curie-Joliot, Albert Einstein, Neils Bohr, Isaac Newton, etc.). Class research symposium Research projects can be given to or selected by students that serve as a capstone experience in a unit...

... fission process was identified by the analysis of Lise Meitner and her nephew Otto Frish: Today we know that the fissionable isotope of uranium is ²³⁵U, which accounts for less than 1% of all the uranium in the world. If one of the fission products is an isotope of barium, then the other must...

...Following her hasty flight from Nazi Germany to Sweden, Lise Meitner wrote to her former colleague, Otto Hahn: “One point which has not yet been discussed in detail is the question of my scientific ‘legacy.’ From my point of view, this is a central concern.” The discussion below will set forth...