In 1945, Hahn was nominated for the 1944 Nobel Prize in chemistry, one year late, for the discovery of nuclear fission. Meitner and Frisch were also nominated for the physics prize that year.

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In perhaps a great injustice, Nazi scientist Otto Hahn was solely awarded a Nobel Prize in 1944 for his discovery of nuclear fission, despite the fact that Lise Meitner, a Jewish scientist, had ...

Hahn was awarded the 1944 Nobel Prize in chemistry for the discovery of nuclear fission. Meitner was nominated in the physics category, but didn't win despite her crucial role in verifying and ...

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, for example, awarded the 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Hahn alone for this research, downplaying Meitner’s involvement.

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