Moss’s (America’s Tea Parties: Not One but Four!) accessible biography paints a searing portrait of Jewish physicist Lise Meitner’s (1878–1968) most famous and controversial achievement. For most of ...

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 ...

The summer blockbuster “Oppenheimer” told the story of how the atomic bomb was built, but according to New York Times science reporter Katrina Miller, the movie left out a key player: Lise Meitner.

Nuclear power, both peaceful and military, is based on atomic fission, unleashing titanic amounts of energy via splitting the nucleus of certain atoms, mainly enriched Uranium U235. In 1944, Otto Hahn ...

We continue the story of Jewish physicist Lise Meitner, the first person to understand that the atom had been split. This is the second in a two-part series featuring new letters from and to Lise ...

“I truly had an amazing experience during the two-week Lise Meitner Programme professional visit. As a nuclear engineer, it was a great opportunity to visit various nuclear facilities and industries.