Word: lise
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hahn had been repeating experiments performed by a onetime colleague, Lise Meitner, a Jewish woman scientist who had fled from Hitler's Reich to Copenhagen. Meitner's own experiments had puzzled her-but when she saw Hahn's report she guessed that the huge uranium atom had been broken into two nearly equal fragments...
...life and writing to climax in the creation of his masterpiece. In his country house in Touraine he worked ten hours a day for four months each year. In Paris, visitors, the mail and the telephone slowed him down. But he kept two secretaries busy. One of them was Lise Dreyfus, brown-eyed, slim, with brown curls piled high on her head, a Government civil servant who had studied in Germany, England and France. Eight years ago Romains married her. She says, "I became at once wife and secretary...