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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Charles Harper Jr. / The Bulletin
December 28, 2008
On Christmas Eve in 1938, the physicist Lise Meitner took a walk in the snowy woods of Kungalv, Sweden, with her nephew, Otto Frisch, also a physicist. A Jewish refugee who recently had escaped from Hitler’s Germany, Meitner began discussing with Frisch some puzzling experimental....