In that letter, physicist Lise Meitner, with the assistance of her young nephew Otto Frisch, provided a physical explanation of how nuclear fission could happen. It was a massive leap forward in ...

Their former colleague Lise Meitner ... the military applications of fission. By the end of the year the physicist Werner Heisenberg had calculated that nuclear fission chain reactions might ...

An Austrian Jew and a woman, Meitner was constrained early in her ... that his results represented the splitting of the atom—nuclear fission—in accordance with Einstein's equation E = mc ...

Lise Meitner was a world-class physicist, who saw what others could not. She recognised nuclear fission – the splitting of the atom – before anyone else. Naomi Alderman meets her. Show more ...

He arrived in a country that was then at the forefront of nuclear physics ... Hahn wrote to the Austrian chemist Lise Meitner, who had worked with him in Berlin until she fled to Sweden after ...

Without a valid passport and carrying only hand luggage, Lise Meitner managed to flee Germany ... A few months after Meitner fled, Hahn and Fritz Strassmann discovered nuclear fission and informed ...

The IAEA Lise Meitner Programme (LMP) provides early- and mid‑career women professionals with opportunities to participate in a multiweek visiting professional programme and advance their technical ...

It had undergone nuclear fission, unlocking some of the most ... He wrote to his colleague and friend, a physicist called Lise Meitner, asking if she could make head or tail of his results.

The IAEA Lise Meitner Library ... Environmental Sciences, Nuclear Safety/Radiation Protection and Environment/Waste Safety, Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Isotopes, Isotopes and Radiological ...

O. Hahn and F. Strassmann 1 have discovered a new type of nuclear reaction, the splitting into two smaller nuclei of the nuclei of uranium and thorium under neutron bombardment. Thus they ...

In that letter, physicist Lise Meitner, with the assistance of her young nephew Otto Frisch, provided a physical explanation of how nuclear fission could happen. It was a massive leap forward in ...