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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 a ...
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.
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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 in ...
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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 ...
¶ The 1944 prize for chemistry went to pioneer atom-splitter Professor Otto Hahn, 66, lately of Berlin. Hahn came to the U.S. in 1933 to lecture for one year at Cornell.