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Mystery .. science WOMEN
Meitner was solicited by Brockhaus an
encyclopedia editor, to write an article ,
he had read an article she wrote on the physical aspects of radioactivity.
When she answered the letter adressed to Herr Meitner and explained she was
a woman, the editor wrote back to retract his request, saying he never would publish
the work of a woman .
hey people until 2012 there is not much
chance in public consciousnes for lise had to leave germany 1938
and her
achievements tribute to otto hahn the nobel 1945 and all honours but hahn was only chemist!!! not physicist!!!In 1945, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry
to Otto Hahn for the of nuclear
fission,
overlooking the physicist
Lise Meitner
, who collaborated with him
in the discovery and gave the first
theoretical explanation of the fission
process. --"forgetting" of the role
of the one
discoverer. she worked with
hahn since the start...and she never came back to germany after ww2!!!
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