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Lise Meitner lecturing in Washington, D.C., 1946
Lise Meitner lecturing in Washington, D.C., 1946

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Person1878 – 1968

Lise Meitner

Austrian-born physicist who, after fleeing the Nazis to Sweden, gave the first physical explanation of nuclear fission with her nephew Frisch

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    1938Discovery of Nuclear Fissionkey figure

    In December 1938 the Berlin chemists Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann found barium produced from uranium bombarded with neutrons. The exiled Lise Meitner and Otto Frisch explained that the uranium nucleus had split in two, releasing enormous energy.

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  • Otto Hahn1879 – 1968

    German chemist who discovered uranium fission with Strassmann in 1938 and received the 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

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  • The Birth of the Atomic Bomb1938 – 1949

    From the discovery of fission to the first Soviet bomb — Einstein’s letter, the Manhattan Project, the Trinity test, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the dawn of the nuclear age