meitner

That's like saying that the Manhattan project was given to the US by Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn.

The world would look very different now if Lise Meitner had thought the same thing in 1917.

I think I remember Lise Meitner - she is the one who has a chemical element named after her.

Lise Meitner is a fascinating case of how all of this works.

So Meitner and Frisch had a paper published in Nature a few weeks after the one by Hahn and Strassman had been published in Naturwissenschafte.

As recently as February 1939, Frisch and Meitner had published in Nature their theoretical explanation of recent experiments, showing that the uranium nucleus could fission when bombarded by neutrons.

Two more appalling omissions are Lisa Meitner for nuclear fission, and Chien-Shiung Wu for parity violation, since effectively others were given the prize for the work and their contributions overlooked.

Or, if many male scientists thought it was disgraceful that a woman like Lise Meitner should work in physics, and snubbed her socially and in her career, is that really disgraceful?

I don't know how many physicists have won Nobel Chemistry prizes for physics, and I suspect Hahn's radiochemisty work was significantly more notable than Meitner and Frisch's.

But because of the Nazi's Hahn had met Meitner in Copenhagen to explain the findings to her, and then she had telegraphed back what to look for when she and Frisch understood what had happened.

The case of Lise Meitner is particularly silly, because she would get at best equal billing with her nephew Otto Frisch; they were together in Sweden on Christmas vacation when Meitner's radiochemistry colleague Otto Hahn sent the startling data to her first, even before any of the physicists in his (Nazi) German chemistry institute (a truly prejudicial action indeed!).

Hahn and Strassman both considered Meitner especially to be a co-discoverer of fission with them (Frisch was not directly involved with the two in Berlin, but he had worked with Meitner after Hahn had explained to her.) During the war Traube, who was also Jewish, died in SS custody (Hahn claims that he was a few hours too late to get him released- and he definitely helped Meitner escape so it is not implausible).

One way to do that was to rehabilitate the losers."[3] So that is why Germany got the 1919 and 1944 Nobel Prizes, and Meitner didn't get any credit from the Nobel committee.

While today some of those things have been corrected after the fact (Lise Meitner is now credited with a Nobel Peace Prize, but did not get awarded at the same time as others), those stories are true." I ask you to read the Wikipedia articles about all those women.

Lise Meitner, Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Rosalind Franklin are some very famous examples, but there are many, many others.

It seems like it was owned by someone who was probably a student of Meitner's.

One of those women even had a chemical element named after herself (Lise Meitner).