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Lise Meitner: The Woman Who Split the Atom (And Was Ignored)

She calculated fission on a tree stump. He took the Nobel.

Lise Meitner fled Nazi Germany with ten marks and a diamond ring. In a snowy Swedish forest, she calculated the energy released by nuclear fission. Her colleague won the Nobel. She did not. This is the story of the discovery of nuclear fission — and the systematic erasure of the woman who explained it.

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