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🧪 Meet Lise Meitner: The nuclear physicist who explained atomic fission in 1939, revolutionizing science. Despite her groundbreaking work, her male colleague Otto Hahn received the 1944 Nobel Prize while she was excluded. #womenshistorymonth #STEM

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Lise Meitner – the forgotten woman of nuclear physics who deserved a Nobel Prize

Left off publications due to Nazi prejudice, this Jewish woman lost her rightful place in the scientific pantheon as the discoverer of nuclear fission.

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...and it took Free University Berlin (FUB) decades to finally rename the "Otto-Hahn-Bau" (the former Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut where nuclear fission was first demonstrated) into "Hahn-Meitner-Bau" after having given her the honorary doctorate (Dr. h.c.) already in 1956.

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