Hair tie lise meitner biography

The science of fission lies at the very heart of our ability to harness nuclear power. Regardless of whether it’s used for weapons, energy, or some unknown purpose, we wouldn’t have any of it, had one of the world’s most brilliant scientific minds not unlocked its secrets.

In 1944, the Nobel Committee awarded a German scientist named Otto Hahn the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. It was for his discovery of nuclear fission, and he would go on to be known as the so-called “father of nuclear chemistry.” 

Hahn was a brilliant researcher, scientist, and chemist, so that’s all well and good, but it’s only part of the story.

He didn’t conduct his research alone; in fact, when it came time to publicly explain his findings, he had some difficulty articulating the very science he was given credit for pioneering.

That’s because it was another researcher who did much of the work, before she was purposefully excluded from the published