But today, we're sharing the story of one who refused to have anything to do with it: physicist Lise Meitner, the scientist whose work was key to the discovery of nuclear fission. We're diving ...

Lise Meitner developed the theory of nuclear fission, the process that enabled the atomic bomb. But her identity — Jewish and a woman — barred her from sharing credit for the discovery ...

Lise Meitner identified the process of fission when her male colleagues couldn't figure it out. Her closest colleague, Otto Hahn, downplayed the significant role she played in the discovery.

Lise Meitner has fought for her entire life to be seen as a scientist, slowly building a career as a nuclear physicist in ...

Marissa Moss, The Woman Who Split the Atom: The Life of Lise Meitner (Abrams Books, 2022) Patricia Rife, Lise Meitner and the Dawn of the Nuclear Age (Birkhauser Verlag, 1999) ...

In 1944, Otto Hahn received the Nobel Prize for its discovery. Omitted from recognition was his co-discoverer, the first female physics professor in Germany, Dr. Lisë Meitner. More a contemporary of ...

Today I bring you the rather sad story of Lise Meitner (1878–1968), co-discoverer, with Otto Hahn (1879-1968) and Fritz Strassmann, of nuclear fission. Hahn won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in ...

Published in the print edition of the September 23, 2024, issue. Erika Meitner is the author of poetry collections including “Useful Junk” (2022) and “Assembled Audience” (2026).

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In that letter, physicist Lise Meitner, with the assistance of her young nephew Otto Frisch, provided a physical explanation of how nuclear fission could happen. It was a massive leap forward in ...

Virginia D. Beale Meitner Lumina, age 91, passed peacefully into eternal life on Saturday, September 21, 2024. She was born in Madison, Wisconsin to Erwin and Romana Beale on 12/28/1932.