Wärmeleitung in inhomogenen Körpern

by Lise Meitner

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First edition

Vienna: Kaiserlich-Königlichen Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, 1906. First edition, journal issue, of Lise Meitner’s doctoral thesis and her first publication — the paper in which she showed that Maxwell’s formula for the conduction of electricity through an inhomogeneous solid holds also for the flow of heat. With it Meitner became only the second woman in her university’s 500-year history to be awarded a doctorate

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