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Alongside Otto Hahn, Meitner interpreted the experimental results that demonstrated the fission of uranium atoms. Despite being overlooked for the Nobel Prize awarded to Hahn, Meitner’s influence was ...

Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn in Berlin, 1913. Meitner had been working as Hahn’s academic equal when they were on the faculty of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin together. By all accounts they ...

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Image Credit: HappySloth via Shutterstock.com. Lise Meitner also isolated a new element, protactinium, but is most well known for explaining the theory of nuclear fission, discovered the previous year ...

They had just heard that German Chemists Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann in Berlin had split the uranium atom. This was atomic fission, and with it the Nazis might soon be able to build an atomic bomb.