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Lise Meitner discovered nuclear fission in 1938. But only Otto Hahn received the Nobel Prize.
She was Austrian, Jewish, and had fled to Sweden to escape the Nazis. For thirty years, she worked with Hahn in Berlin. She was the first to understand that the nucleus of the atom could split.
She called this phenomenon "nuclear fission." A discovery that changed the world: the atomic bomb, nuclear energy, medicine.
Hahn received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1944. Alone. Meitner wasn't even mentioned. For decades, the discovery was attributed to Hahn.
Today, element 109 bears her name: meitnerium. But the Nobel Prize was never awarded to her.
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