Lise Meitner was left off the publication that eventually led to a Nobel Prize for her colleague.

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1. Sheril Kirshenbaum (sheril@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 11-Aug-2023 04:37:28 UTC Sheril Kirshenbaum

   Physicist Lise Meitner’s brilliance led to the discovery of nuclear fission. But her long time collaborator Otto Hahn, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry without her in 1944, even though she had given the first theoretical explanation.

   Albert Einstein called Meitner “our Marie Curie." She also adamantly refused to work on the atomic bomb during WWII. https://whyy.org/articles/lise-meitner-the-forgotten-woman-of-nuclear-physics-who-deserved-a-nobel-prize/ #science #history