Ruth Lewin Sime

Ruth Lewin Sime (* 1939 ) is an American professor emeritus for physical chemistry at Sacramento City College (SCC) in Sacramento . Sime also became known as a science historian , for example she wrote a biography about Lise Meitner and did research on Otto Hahn . In 2003 she was a visiting scholar in Germany for the "Kaiser Wilhelm Society under National Socialism" commission of the Max Planck Society in Berlin.

Lewin Sime received his PhD in chemistry from Harvard University in 1964 ; then she went as an "Assistant Professor" of chemistry at California State University in Long Beach (1964–1965), at the same university, Sacramento (1965–1967) and at Hunter College, City University of New York, before she from 1968 a member of the "Faculty" of the Sacramento State College.

Lewin Sime was a multiple fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Her biography about Lise Meitner has been translated into Chinese, German and Japanese.

Prizes and awards

She received two prizes for her biography about Lise Meitner:

• 1997 Commonwealth Club of California silver medal
• 1998 Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize from the History of Science Society

Publications (selection)

• Lise Meitner. A Life in Physics , Berkeley 1996; German translation: Lise Meitner. A life for physics , Frankfurt / Main 2001
• (together with Elisabeth Crawford and Mark Walker ): A Nobel Tale of Wartime Injustice , in: Nature 382, ​​1996, pp. 393-395; German translation: The nuclear fission and its price. Why only Otto Hahn received the Nobel Prize, Otto Frisch, Lise Meitner and Fritz Straßmann, on the other hand, are not taken into account in: Kultur & Technik. Journal of the Deutsches Museum 21, 1997, No. 2, pp. 30–35
• (together with Elisabeth Crawford and Mark Walker): A Nobel Tale of Postwar Injustice , in: Physics Today 50, 1997, No. 9, pp. 26-32; German translation: Hahn, Meitner and the Nobel Prize, in: Physics in our time 29, 1998, No. 11, pp. 234–241
• Lise Meitner and the Discovery of Nuclear Fission , in: Scientific American 298, 1998, No. 1, pp. 80-85; German translation: Lise Meitner and the fission , in: Spectrum of Science, May 1998, pp. 80–85
• The Search for Transuranium Elements and the Discovery of Nuclear Fission , in: Physics in Perspective 2, 2000, pp. 48-62
• The Search for Artificial Elements and the Discovery of Nuclear Fission , in: Carsten Reinhardt (ed.): Chemical Sciences in the 20th Century. Bridging Boundaries , Weinheim 2001, pp. 146-159

Web links

• Literature by and about Ruth Lewin Sime in the catalog of the German National Library
• John Simon Guggenheim Fellows - Ruth Lewin Sime . John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved December 12, 2015.
• Page at Sacramento City College about Sime
• Page in pearl divers about Sime
• Otto Hahn and the Max Planck Society: Between Past and Memory, Results 14 within the framework of the Commission "History of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society in National Socialism" of the MPG, PDF
• Interview with Ruth Lewin Sime about the nuclear physicist Lise Meitner in the online archive of the Austrian Media Library