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Lise Meitner helped discover nuclear fission but never won a Nobel Prize for her brilliance despite...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 5 months agoOtto Hahn (left) won a Nobel Prize for the discovery of nuclear fission and would later downplay his...
Female physicists aren't represented in the media – and this lack of representation hurts the...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 11 months agoLise Meitner, in the front row, sits alongside many male colleagues at the Seventh Solvay Physics...
She was called the ‘Mother of the Atomic Bomb’ — but she wanted nothing to do with a bomb
Deseret News via Yahoo News· 9 months agoWho is called the ‘Mother of the Atomic Bomb’? Who is Lise Meitner? Why didn’t Lise Meitner win a...
Eclipsed genius: Despite modest progress, sexism and racism persist in science
Salon via Yahoo News· 10 months agoPortraits of Ada Lovelace, Eunice Foote, Nettie Stevens, Alice Augusta Ball and Lise Meitner Photo...
The science you should understand before seeing 'Oppenheimer'
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 11 months agoChristopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer" tells the story of J. Robert Oppenheimer, father of the atomic...
Read part 2 of this woman's story about her mother's early adulthood in Oak Ridge
The Oak Ridger via Yahoo News· 1 month agoAnna Caryl Guffey continues her series on Oak Ridge. *** A series of earth changing events had taken...
Operation Gunnerside: The Daring Norwegian Commando Raid that Ended Nazi Atomic Dreams Without...
Military.com via Yahoo News· 4 months agoNeither the United States nor Germany would end up completing an atomic bomb while the war in Europe...