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The Path to Nuclear Fission is about a brilliant Jewish woman, Lise Meitner. In 1907, Meitner came to Berlin as a shy physics student from Vienna, and met the worldly Otto Hahn.
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- Rosemarie Reed
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1. Jan. 2006 · A story about the life and turbulent times of Lisa Meitner and Otto Hahn, two exceptional scientists whose remarkable collaboration culminated in the discovery of nuclear fission, the division of the atom that changed the future.
14. Feb. 2012 · The letter provided the first theoretical explanation for the splitting of the atom, and coined a new term in physics: fission. The woman who co-authored the letter, and co-discovered the power of nuclear energy, is perhaps not quite as well-known as some of her contemporaries.
In the list of distinguished scientists whose lives were touched by those two cataclysms, the names of Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner stand out prominently. The combination of Hahn’s expertise ...
Otto Hahn, Lise Meitner, and Fritz Strassmann. In 1938 Hahn, Meitner, and Strassmann became the first to recognize that the uranium atom, when bombarded by neutrons, actually split. Hahn received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1944.
The Path to Nuclear Fission is about a brilliant Jewish woman, Lise Meitner. In 1907, Meitner came to Berlin as a shy physics student from Vienna, and met the worldly Otto Hahn.
With the discovery of nuclear fission and the possibility of harnessing the immense energies lying hidden in atoms, international cooperation suddenly came to an end. As early as spring 1939, the German military showed interest in possible applications of nuclear fission.
