Nuclear fission – the physical process by which very large atoms like uranium split into pairs of smaller atoms – is what ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 works to address the underrepresentation of women in the nuclear field through the IAEA Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship Programme (MSCFP) and the Lise Meitner Programme (LMP). By enabling ...