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A letter from renowned physicist Albert Einstein outlining his own role in the development of the atomic bomb and his ...

At the Max Planck Society in Germany, the Lise Meitner Excellence Program—aimed at young female researchers—drew triple the number of applications from U.S.-based scientists this year as last year.

Citing figures like physicists Albert Einstein and Lise Meitner — both of whom emigrated to escape Nazi persecution during the Third Reich — the scientists wrote that Germany and Europe now have the ...

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. ... Meitner had been working as Hahn’s ...

How physicist Lise Meitner unlocked the science of the atom bomb that cost ... In the early 20th Century it was barely possible for women to work in science at all and yet Einstein once called ...

The latest application of the IAEA's Lise Meitner Programme is now officially open, offering career development and networking opportunities for women professionals in the nuclear field.. The IAEA ...

The latest application of the IAEA’s Lise Meitner Programme is now officially open, offering career development and networking opportunities for women professionals in the nuclear field.. The IAEA ...

You might have heard of Lise Meitner. A native of Austria, she was the first woman to become a full professor of physics in Germany. She also helped discover nuclear fission. Yet the 1944 Nobel ...

Her work reshaped modern physics and inspired generations of female scientists. CC BY STEM for Success, Lise Meitner: Mother of Physics, YouTube, //www.youtube.com ...

Lise Meitner. 7 November 1878 – 27 October 1968. ... Nevertheless, Hahn and Meitner did pioneering work together, along with others including, later, Meitner’s nephew Otto Frisch.