Breaking Men's Symmetry Hold On The Nobel Prize In Physics
Thursday, April 9, 2015 - 18:50
in Physics & Chemistry
The woman behind the atom bomb, physicist Lise Meitner didn’t receive a Nobel Prize for her essential role in the discovery and explanation of nuclear fission. Only her decades-long research partner, chemist Otto Hahn received the prize. Whereas Lise had included Otto’s name for work she had done in his absence during WW I, Hahn omitted Lise’s name twenty years later at the dawn of WW II. read more