The author’s mother, Gertrude Scharff-Goldhaber, was a prominent nuclear physicist who had to overcome steep odds to pursue her work. She lived and worked at a time when it was very uncommon for any woman to be a scientist and even more uncommon for a mother of young children. She also faced Nazi persecution and a series of other challenges in growing up in Germany. Drawing on personal conversations and testimony of her friends, this brief account includes a number of intimate details to illustrate some of the difficulties she faced and the zest for life and for understanding the world that pushed her forward anyway. Details of her work and a bibliography are included.

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Gertrude Scharff-Goldhaber，1911-1998 年：核物理学家逆天

作者的母亲格特鲁德·沙尔夫-戈德哈伯 (Gertrude Scharff-Goldhaber) 是一位杰出的核物理学家，她必须克服困难才能继续工作。在她生活和工作的时代，任何女性成为科学家都是非常罕见的，对于一个有年幼孩子的母亲来说更是罕见。她在德国的成长过程中还面临纳粹迫害和一系列其他挑战。根据她朋友的个人谈话和证词，这个简短的叙述包括许多私密的细节，以说明她所面临的一些困难以及对生活和理解推动她前进的世界的热情。包括她的工作和参考书目的详细信息。