Lise Meitner helped discover nuclear fission, but despite 49 nominations, never won a Nobel Prize for her genius
Otto Hahn (left) won a Nobel Prize for the discovery of nuclear fission and would later downplay his colleague Lise Meitner (right) for her crucial role in the discovery.ullstein bild Dtl./Getty Images Lise Meitner identified the fission process when her male colleagues could not figure it out. Her close colleague, Otto Hahn, downplayed the important … Read more