A letter from renowned physicist Albert Einstein outlining his own role in the development of the atomic bomb and his ...

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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 ...

Manhattan Project: Lise Meitner Lise Meitner was a world-class physicist, who saw what others could not. She recognised nuclear fission – the splitting of the atom – before anyone else.

Discover showtimes, read reviews, watch trailers, find streaming options, and see where to watch The Path to Nuclear Fission The Story of Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn (2006). Explore cast details ...

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, an Austrian-Swedish physicist, was a trailblazer in nuclear physics and co-discovered nuclear fission, the process that powers both nuclear reactors and weapons. Despite her critical ...

This is a tribute to a pioneering nuclear physicist, Lise Meitner. Born in Vienna, Austria, in 1878, she excelled in mathematics and science from an early age.

Fission’s frightening potential quickly became apparent to scientists everywhere. But Hitler considered the new theoretical physics too contaminated by Jews like Lise to be worthy of much ...

Sir, – Lise Meitner, the co-discoverer of nuclear fission, may have been overlooked for a Nobel Prize but her name lives on (“Co-discoverer of nuclear fission Lise Meitner unfairly overlooked ...