Lise Meitner

Sarah Loguen Fraser was the daughter of abolitionists and one of the first African American female doctors trained after the Civil War.

Lise Meitner, an Austrian-born Jewish physicist, never received the Nobel Prize she deserved for her pioneering work on nuclear fission

Coming from the Congo, I knew where the essential ingredient for the atomic bombs was mined, even if everyone else seemed to ignore it.

Honoring women at the forefront of science

New research shows how nature nurtures the brain, showing that a walk in the woods reduces stress-related activity in the amygdala, yielding mental health benefits.

With the help of detailed observations, astronomers have managed to get a first representative glimpse of the numerous young stars in the central regions of our home galaxy. The observations provide evidence for star formation in the galactic center having started off near the center and then worked its way outwards. This confirms a mode of star formation that had earlier been found in the centers of other, distant…

A new book collates the memories of the physicist, who at 18 years of age was a member of the Los Alamos laboratory research that led to the development of the atomic bomb

To get to the places where they are needed, immune cells not only squeeze through tiny pores. They even overcome wall-like barriers of tightly packed cells. Researchers at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) have now discovered that cell division is key to their success. Together with other recent studies, their findings published in Science give the full picture of a process just as important…

Nuclear power (peaceful and military) is based on atomic fission, unleashing titanic amounts of energy via splitting the nucleus of certain atoms - mainly enriched Uranium U235. In 1944, Otto Hahn received the Nobel Prize for its discovery.  Omitted from recognition was his co-discoverer, the first female physics professor in Germany, Dr. Lisë Meitner.

When poet Jessy Randall saw that so many female scientists weren't getting their due, she got mad. And then she decided to write poems for as many as she could

Lise Meitner developed the theory of nuclear fission, the process that enabled the atomic bomb. But her identity — Jewish and a woman — barred her from sharing credit for the discovery, newly translated letters show.

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Former Trump White House counselor Kellyanne Conway acknowledges in her new book that former President Donald Trump legitimately lost the 2020 presidential election, and she blames his campaign for not leveling with him.Politico reports that Conway accused the campaign of failing to execute its stra...

French doctor and researcher Marthe Gautier, who died over the weekend, was one of a long line of women scientists who greatly contributed to scientific discovery only to see the credit go to their male colleagues.

The birth of modern science was hostile to women's participation. The world's major academies of science were founded in the 17th century: the Royal Society of London (1662), the Paris Académie Roy…

Lise Meitner (1878–1968), Austrian physicist. Nettie Stevens (1861–1912), American geneticist. Ángela Ruiz Robles (1895–1975), Spanish teacher, writer, pioneer and inventor. Mary Agnes Chase (1869–1963), American botanist.

Letters between Lise Meitner and the chemist Otto Hahn reveal how she struggled with Hahn's failure to credit her work and condemn the Nazi atrocities

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