From: Judith Bone (judith@HELIOS-UK.DEMON.CO.UK)
Date: Wed May 26 1999 - 12:54:12 PDT
Rosamund (Rosalind?) Franklin of the double helix team died of leukemia before the Nobel Prize was awarded and is similarly forgotten, to the chagrin of other Paulinas. Judith Bone In message <004801bea7a8$c891df60$5e6ca8d8@KenWhitlock>, Verlie Whitlock <whitlock@NRTCO.NET> writes > I enjoyed Walter Felscher's account of the events surrounding the >development and use of the atomic bomb, but I noted the absence of any >mention of the woman scientist involved; I'm wondering if she has been >written right out of the story in the country where she worked. Since I >couldn't remember her name, I consulted my son, who has studied this whole >subject quite extensively. I forwarded Walter's article to him and his >reply came back: > >"He overlooks Lise Meitner, who worked with Hahn and Strassman for several >years, but by the time the crucial uranium experiments took place in winter >1938, she was already a refugee in Sweden (she was Jewish). However, it was >Meitner and her nephew Otto Frisch who came up with the fission explanation >(and coined the word "fission"), since Hahn and Strassman couldn't figure >out what their results meant. > >Jeremy." > > It seems that, even in the account of historical events, we women have >to look out for each other - even when the events took place 60 years ago! > >Verlie Whitlock >Technology is the patsy of human error