Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Otto Hahn (left) won a Nobel Prize for the discovery of nuclear fission and would later downplay his colleague Lise Meitner (right ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. That all changed on Feb. 11, 1939, with a letter to the editor of Nature – a premier international scientific journal – that ...

We continue the story of Jewish physicist Lise Meitner, the first person to understand that the atom had been split. This is the second in a two-part series featuring new letters from and to Lise ...

Nuclear power, both 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 ...

It is said that the first casualty of war is the truth, and few wars have demonstrated that more than World War II. One scientist, whose insights would make the atomic age possible, would learn a ...

When Lise Meitner was invited to Los Alamos in the early 1940s to work on the Manhattan Project, the code name for the secret program to develop the first nuclear weapons, she declined, saying, “I ...

“I truly had an amazing experience during the two-week Lise Meitner Programme professional visit. As a nuclear engineer, it was a great opportunity to visit various nuclear facilities and industries.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lise Meitner was left off the publication that eventually led to a Nobel Prize for her colleague. That all changed on Feb. 11, ...