But Lise Meitner, Hahn's longtime colleague and collaborator who actually identified and scientifically explained the process of nuclear fission, was nominated for a Nobel that same year but didn ...

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, newly ...

In 1944 it was announced that the Nobel Prize for Chemistry would be awarded to Hahn for the discovery of nuclear fission and no-one else, notably excluding Meitner, Strassman and Frisch. Prominent ...

That all changed on Feb. 11, 1939, with a letter to the editor of Nature – a premier international scientific journal – that described exactly how such a thing could occur and even named it fission.

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 ...

You might have heard of Lise Meitner. A native of Austria, she was the first woman to become a full professor of physics in Germany. She also helped discover nuclear fission. Yet the 1944 Nobel ...

Lise Meitner. 7 November 1878 – 27 October 1968. An Austrian-Swedish physicist who co-discovered nuclear fission before fleeing the Nazis Look along the bottom row of a standard ...

Nuclear Physics: Father of Fission; Nuclear Physics: Father of Fission. 3 minute read. TIME. August 9, 1968 12:00 AM GMT-4. NUCLEAR PHYSICS . ... Physicist Lise Meitner, had no such hesitation.

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. In 1944, ...

Nuclear fission – the physical process by which very large atoms like uranium split into pairs of smaller atoms – is what makes nuclear bombs and nuclear power plants possible. But for many ...