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 ...

Collaborators: Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner in 1912, a few years into their 30-year working relationship. This summer, the theoretical physicist Robert Oppenheimer captured widespread public fascination ...

The article highlighted women whose groundbreaking inventions and discoveries were wrongly credited to men. These include ...

A new slim volume examines the history of the science behind the atomic age. Craig Kenny looks at this tale of terror ...

On the flip side of Lise Meitner being deprived of a Nobel prize by the Nobel committee is Russian Jewish novelist Boris Pasternak who was announced the winner in 1958 but was forced to decline it ...

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 ...

However Lise Meitner -- whose many accomplishments were never properly recognized during her lifetime -- had already described the same phenomenon in 1922.

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 ...

MANY readers of NATURE will wish to join with her friends in offering their congratulations to Miss Lise Meitner on the occasion of her sixtieth birthday, which she celebrated in Stockholm on ...

The film “Oppenheimer,” which tells the story of the Manhattan Project’s development of the atomic bomb, has made quite a splash this summer, with audiences and critics alike hailing it as a riveting ...