Wholesale Sisters in Science : Olivia Campbell

How Four Women Physicists Escaped Nazi Germany and Made Scientific History Hardcover | 384 pages History / Women Hidden Figures meets Oppenheimer in this remarkable story of four trailblazing women physicists and their harrowing escape from Nazi Germany, from the New York Times bestselling author of Women in White Coats. The extraordinary true story of four women pioneers in physics during World War II and their daring escape out of Nazi Germany In the 1930s, Germany was a hotbed of scientific thought. But after the Nazis took power, Jewish and female citizens were forced out of their academic positions. Hedwig Kohn, Lise Meitner, Hertha Sponer and Hildegard Stücklen were eminent in their fields, but they had no choice but to flee due to their Jewish ancestry or anti-Nazi sentiments.