Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Otto Hahn (left) won a Nobel Prize for the discovery of nuclear fission and would later downplay his colleague Lise Meitner (right ...

Nuclear fission – the physical process by which very large atoms like uranium split into pairs of smaller atoms – is what makes nuclear bombs and nuclear power plants possible. But for many years, ...

Work on nuclear physics in the early twentieth century moved across borders, institutes and private letters. Lise Meitner was ...

Lise Meitner, a brilliant physicist, was instrumental in understanding nuclear fission but was overlooked for the Nobel Prize ...

“I truly had an amazing experience during the two-week Lise Meitner Programme professional visit. As a nuclear engineer, it was a great opportunity to visit various nuclear facilities and industries.

One chilly Christmas night on the eve of WWII, Jewish refugee Lise Meitner took a stroll with her nephew through a snowy Swedish forest. Their fateful walk concluded with her making the key ...

Otto Hahn (left) won a Nobel Prize for the discovery of nuclear fission and would later downplay his colleague Lise Meitner (right) for her critical role in the discovery.ullstein bild Dtl./Getty ...

Nuclear fission – the physical process by which very large atoms like uranium split into pairs of smaller atoms – is what makes nuclear bombs and nuclear power plants possible. But for many years, ...

That all changed on Feb. 11, 1939, with a letter to the editor of Nature – a premier international scientific journal – that described exactly how such a thing could occur and even named it fission.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lise Meitner was left off the publication that eventually led to a Nobel Prize for her colleague. That all changed on Feb. 11, ...