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

Dec 03, 1998

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Ruth Lewin Sime, Sacramento City College | Lecture Series: History and Biography

 

Fall Lecture Series 1998


History and Biography

Was Rahel Varnhagen a Self-Hating Jew? 
September 24, 1998
Deborah Hertz (Sarah Lawrence College) 

"O Freunde, nicht diese Töne": Beethoven Biography as Propaganda 
October 22, 1998
David B. Dennis (Loyola University of Chicago) 

Problems of a New Hitler Biography 
November 5, 1998
Ian Kershaw (University of Sheffield) 

Friedrich Hecker: Revolution, Emigration, Commemoration 
November 24, 1998
Sabine Freitag (GHI London)

Politics, "Race," and Gender: Lise Meitner and the Discovery of Nuclear Fission 
December 3, 1998
Ruth Lewin Sime (Sacramento City College)

Ernst Reuter: The Problem of Cold War Hagiography 
December 10, 1998
David E. Barclay (Kalamazoo College)