Escape from Berlin
It's 13th July 1938 and an elderly lady of Jewish extraction is boarding a train in Berlin for the Dutch border, barely escaping the grasp of the Nazi authorities. In one of the great switchback points in history the onrushing locomotive of destiny has found itself diverted down a path that will lead, circuitously, to the end of the Second World War, the triumph of the great liberal democracies and the rise of quantitative financial modelling.
Her name is Lise Meitner and now, as we leave her travelling her lonely path to exile in Sweden, she has just 10 marks in her purse. And the key to the atomic bomb in her head.
It's 13th July 1938 and an elderly lady of Jewish extraction is boarding a train in Berlin for the Dutch border, barely escaping the grasp of the Nazi authorities. In one of the great switchback points in history the onrushing locomotive of destiny has found itself diverted down a path that will lead, circuitously, to the end of the Second World War, the triumph of the great liberal democracies and the rise of quantitative financial modelling.
Her name is Lise Meitner and now, as we leave her travelling her lonely path to exile in Sweden, she has just 10 marks in her purse. And the key to the atomic bomb in her head.
