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| | WashingtonPost.com: Lise Meitner : A Life in Physics |
 | | Vienna at least promised improvement and pleasure: music of every sort, opera and "heater, newspapers by the dozens, a renowned university, famous physicians and scientists, good food, vineyards at the edge of town, and blue hills shimmering hazily in the distance. |
 | | By the end of the century, Vienna had given birth to Viktor Adler's democratic socialism and Theodor Herzl's Zionism; it was the home Sigmund Freud loved to hate and the political base For Karl Lueger, the city's longtime mayor, whose heady mix of populism and anti-Semitism drew the rapt attention of the young Adolf Hitler. |
 | | At the University of Vienna, he was a student of Josef Loschmidt (1821-1895), who made reliable early estimates of molecular size and the number of molecules per mole, and he was assistant to Josef Stefan (1835-1893), who devised an empirical formula for fl body radiation that Boltzmann subsequently gave a theoretical basis. |
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