4/8/2015 0 Comments Lise Meitner: The (Almost) Forgotten Physicist Who Helped Discover Nuclear Fission
Meitner, circa 1905 in Vienna via Wikimedia Commons
By Jessica Li
Lise Meitner collaborated with Otto Hahn in discovering nuclear fission, but Hahn’s name is the one associated most with the discovery, even nowadays, because he, not Meitner, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for it. Meitner's role in the instrumental discovery is not recognized nearly enough, even today.
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By Jessica Li
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