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 early 1939, German chemists Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann announced a discovery that would change the world. Bombarding uranium with neutrons, the duo found that the nucleus split up into ...

Some weeks ago Dr. Otto Hahn of Berlin's Kaiser Wilhelm Institute donned his work clothes, walked into his laboratory to perform a physical experiment. With a stream of neutrons (obtainable by ...

Lise Meitner discovered how the process of nuclear fission works but she never won a Nobel Prize and her colleague Otto Hahn downplayed her role.

Nuclear power, both peaceful and military, is based on atomic fission, unleashing titanic amounts of energy via splitting the nucleus of certain atoms, mainly enriched Uranium U235. In 1944, Otto Hahn ...

Introduction / William R. Shea -- The nuclear electron hypothesis / Roger H. Stuewer -- The evolution of matter / Robert H. Kargon -- The discovery of fission and a nuclear physics paradigm / Spencer ...

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry includes famous winners such as Marie Curie and Otto Hahn.

Born on November 7, 1968, Lise Meitner was an Austrian-born physicist who made significant contributions to the field of nuclear physics. She is best known for her collaboration with Otto Hahn in ...