Very pleased to see NYT acknowledge Lise Meitner.
Meitner developed the theory of nuclear fission & newly translated letters show she was barred from sharing credit for the Nobel Prize-winning discovery because she was Jewish & a woman. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/02/science/lise-meitner-fission-nobel.html?unlocked_article_code=JGbPgv1zYxrgU0vMDkmURf0UPTTjuLHgCJ7dTnWeFmWslaXwaWhZQ2CW6dr-HuF0MeGqXSfyQV0XyOgw7VTABLw9yJxUG8Jd9xQMrPqsNiNcVd3g1GwsxckwQMW5awE4g9aTqtT-TQbgs1PG5BpMDmUsqcAuapMB798_kyVYaEEXUwILTeojASGJ6ZvwXa5e-LpMvbl3o47_ZtX4JPzngzAvKys52S_L9v2O8h3vH0JYmLSlYmeokZCyl1NmKI_ZXmKyeExgLGB165ODtBkLtFvRRkCofN7uTN2imyfz20LJtbVEy1RdwZ6hqJZf8pvRMlD8yz-OjfYq7wLSbNw5k4zs0hAs&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare #science #history #HistoryRemix
ahimsa
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •The "Lost Women of Science" podcast just did a 2 part episode about her, part of their "Lost Women of the Manhattan Project" series.
(transcripts available)
Part 1: https://www.lostwomenofscience.org/season-6-episodes/lise-meitner
Part 2: https://www.lostwomenofscience.org/season-6-episodes/why-did-lise-meitner-never-receive-the-nobel-prize-for-splitting-the-atom-part-2
#Science #History #Women #Podcast #ManhattanProject
Why Did Lise Meitner Never Receive the Nobel Prize for Splitting the Atom?
www.lostwomenofscience.orgSheril Kirshenbaum
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •I do have one small quibble with the NYT piece. The headline calls Meitner the “Mother of the Atomic Bomb.”
No. Meitner helped discover nuclear fission & foresaw its dangerous potential. BUT she refused to work on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, famously declaring, “I will have nothing to do with a bomb!”
Her gravestone reads, “Lise Meitner: a physicist who never lost her humanity.” /2
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in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •Yay!
I went to Otto-Hahn-Gymnasium (grade 5-13 school) and next to us was Lise-Meitner-Realschule (grade 5-10 school). There was a big split atom in front, made of stone.
Neil
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in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •it's just a bomb that thinks that I am it's mum
but the fatboy's not my son 🎶
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in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •Thank you for this. I know I won't see Oppenheimer now
That's just crap from the Nobel committee. Absolutely zero reason not to award her the prize now
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