Nuclear fission – the physical process by which very large atoms like uranium split into pairs of smaller atoms – is what ...

The IAEA Lise Meitner Programme (LMP) provides early- and mid‑career women professionals with opportunities to participate in a multiweek visiting professional programme and advance their technical ...

Hahn claimed the discovery for himself and accepted a Nobel Prize for it without crediting Meitner. She later received informal recognition for her role. The young Goeppert thrived in the ...

Austrian-Swedish physicist Lise Meitner was one of the key people responsible ... Hahn who won the 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery. The list could go – and the women scientists ...

Hahn and Fritz Strassmann discovered nuclear fission and informed Meitner about it. Together with her nephew, the physicist then developed the theoretical explanation. The Nobel Prize for this ...

Erika Meitner is the quintessential 21st-century storyteller bearing witness...a social critic with heart, humor, and an incomparable voice,” writes poet Carmen Gimenez Smith; “Holy Moly Carry Me is ...

The MPG offers excellent researchers again the possibility to apply for a position as a Leader of a Lise Meitner Research Group in all areas of science. The Max Planck Society has initiated a number ...

Lise Meitner was a world-class physicist ... an unimpeachable reputation for scientific precision and brilliance. Her discovery of fission made the atom bomb possible, but she refused to have ...