Lise Meitner helped discover nuclear fission but never won the Nobel Prize for her genius, despite 49 nominations
Otto Hahn (left) won the Nobel Prize for the discovery of nuclear fission and later snubbed his colleague Lise Meitner (right) for her critical role in the discovery.ullstein bild Dtl./Getty Images Lise Meitner identified the process of division that her male colleagues could not resolve. His closest colleague, Otto Hahn, downplayed the important role he… Read More »