I have been reading Lise Meitner: A Life in Physics [U Cal Press;1996] by Ruth Lewin Sime. This is an important work, vital to gaining understanding of evolving experimentation in pursuit of the nature of the atom in the 20th Century. But the greater importance is in the light it shines on Lise Meitner, who continues to arise from the footnotes of too many histories, to take a chief post in the history of science — this in the face of a crushing force of dehumanization. [Read more…] about Lab note: On Reading Sime’s “Lise Meitner”