Lise Meitner — the forgotten woman of nuclear physics who deserved a Nobel Prize
- Written by Timothy J. Jorgensen, Director of the Health Physics and Radiation Protection Graduate Program and Associate Professor of Radiation Medicine, Georgetown University
Lise Meitner was left off the publication that eventually led to a Nobel Prize for her colleague.
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 years, physicists believed it energetically...
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