Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lise Meitner was left off the publication that eventually led to a Nobel Prize for her colleague. That all changed on Feb. 11, ...

Lise Meitner identified the process of fission when her male colleagues couldn't figure it out. Her closest colleague, Otto Hahn, downplayed the significant role she played in the discovery. In 1944, ...

When the Kaiser Wilhelm Society held its Annual General Meeting at Harnack House in summer 1931, a change that was to turn the status quo upside down awaited the guests. One of the three testimonial ...

When Lise Meitner was invited to Los Alamos in the early 1940s to work on the Manhattan Project, the code name for the secret program to develop the first nuclear weapons, she declined, saying, “I ...

The discovery of nuclear fission is one of the most profound scientific breakthroughs of the 20th century, reshaping physics, unlocking the power of the atomic nucleus, and setting the stage for both ...

It was a massive leap forward in nuclear physics, but today Lise Meitner remains obscure and largely forgotten. She was excluded from the victory celebration because she was a Jewish woman. Her story ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. That all changed on Feb. 11, 1939, with a letter to the editor of Nature – a premier international scientific journal – that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Otto Hahn (left) won a Nobel Prize for the discovery of nuclear fission and would later downplay his colleague Lise Meitner (right ...

Nuclear fission – the physical process by which very large atoms like uranium split into pairs of smaller atoms – is what makes nuclear bombs and nuclear power plants possible. But for many years, ...

That all changed on Feb. 11, 1939, with a letter to the editor of Nature – a premier international scientific journal – that described exactly how such a thing could occur and even named it fission.