Table of Contents
1 Dreams of the Impossible 1
2 Education at Last! 5
3 A Professor with No Profession 7
4 A Partnership Better than Marriage 13
5 The New Science of Radioactivity 16
6 Out of the Dark 21
7 War and Science 26
8 Back in the Lab 33
9 After the War 36
10 A Professor at Last 40
11 "Jewish" Physics vs. "Aryan" Physics 45
12 Hitler Takes Power 50
13 Boycott The Jews! 53
14 A Talk with Hitler about Science 57
15 To Go or To Stay 60
16 The Nazification of Science 64
17 Can It Get Worse? 72
18 The New Radioactive Physics 75
19 The Jewess Must Go 78
20 Passport Problems 85
21 How to Smuggle a Scientist 92
22 Success or Failure? 99
23 A Narrow Escape 102
24 A Brilliant Enough Physicist? 111
25 An Atomic Mystery 115
26 The Atom Splits! 119
27 The Impossible is Possible! 123
28 The Power of Nuclear Fission 131
29 A Letter from Einstein 138
30 The Race for the Bomb 142
31 A Lab of One's Own 146
32 Another Physicist Escapes 153
33 The German Nuclear Program 156
34 What to Do with Nazi Scientists? 161
35 Ihe Mother of the Bomb 170
36 Ihe Americans Did What?! 174
37 Meitner in America 179
38 The Nobel Prize for Nuclear Fission Goes To 182
39 After the War: Working for Nuclear Peace 187
40 A Prize of Her Own 192
Afterword 197
Author's Note 201
Timeline of Meitner's Life and Achievements 205
Glossary of Select Terms in Physics 216
Profiles of Scientists Mentioned 218
Notes 231
Select Bibliography 250
Image Credits 251
Acknowledgments 252
Index 253