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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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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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