Bit of an uneven collection of essays here - of these, a small handful barely mention Hahn, so I'm not sure that the book has the most accurate choice of title. The main issue, though, lies with the prose. A number of the chapters are so enormously turgid that they are well nigh unreadable. Granted, I'm not a nuclear physicist (my background is in biology and science communication) but I should not be bored to death by science, no matter the discipline. The reason that this collection is getting three stars, though, is that there are three chapters which are genuinely interesting, as well as being actually well-written. Points to Fritz Krafft for his chapter on"Internal and External Conditions for the Discovery of Nuclear Fission by the Berlin Team" and Lawrence Badash for his chapter "Otto Hahn, Science, and Social Responsibility." The best chapter of the entire book, however - it really was fascinating - was Neil Cameron's "The Politics of British Science in the Munich Era." All credit to these three authors, for being the bright spots in an otherwise tedious text.