Moments in the Life of a Scientist Book

I knew the basic story of Lise Meitner before I read this book, but it was nice to have it in the broader context of the birth of modern physics in the 1930s and 40s. The Nazis destroyed so much more than just the physics renaissance occurring in Berlin at the time of their rise to power - but one can't read this book and wonder where would we be if that community hadn't been shattered? Many of the senior scientists were saved by the world science community - but what happened to all the young ones, yet to make names for themselves, who didn't have Nobel Prize winners like Niels Bohr personally fighting for their safety?
Meitner would have been an amazing woman to know. She became a physicist at a time when women weren't allowed to obtain degrees, much less obtain academic positions - but she never let it stop her, she just did it anyways. It took the Nazi regime to stop her, send her running for her life, depriving her of her work and her from credit from the Nobel prize committee for the correct interpretation of one of the most significant discoveries of the 20th century: nuclear fission.