Lise Meitner, the Austrian-born physicist, was a longtime collaborator of Otto Hahn, who won the Nobel Prize in 1944. She did not share in the award with him. Bettmann, via Getty Images ...

Only Hahn won the Nobel Prize for nuclear fission. In his acceptance speech, he referred to Meitner with a German term that means assistant or employee, according to Marissa Moss, the author of ...

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.

Fission might protect Hahn and his laboratory during those tumultuous times. In 1944 it was announced that the Nobel Prize for Chemistry would be awarded to Hahn for the discovery of nuclear ...

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry includes famous winners such as Marie Curie and Otto Hahn. Here is a full list.

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 ...

Today I bring you the rather sad story of Lise Meitner (1878–1968), co-discoverer, with Otto Hahn (1879-1968) and Fritz Strassmann, of nuclear fission. Hahn won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry ...

PROF. OTTO HAHN, to whom the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for 1944 has been awarded, in recognition of his discovery (with F. Strassmann) of the neutron-induced fission of uranium and thorium (in its ...

Even that didn’t help her situation. The Nobel Committee awarded the 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry “for the discovery of the fission of heavy nuclei” to Hahn alone.