Lise Meitner has slowly built a career as a nuclear physicist in Berlin and has fought her life to be considered a scientist. When Adolf Hitler comes to power, the small profits she has made are taken away. As a Jewish woman, does Lise have her passion for science worth her life?
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This episode was based on Woman splitting atoms By Marissa Moss.
Other sources include
Ruth Lewin Sime – Lise Meitner: Life in Physics
David Bodanis – E = MC2 Biography of equations
Patricia Life – Lise Meitner and the dawn of the nuclear age
Richard Rhodes – Atomic bomb manufacturing
John Cornwell – Hitler’s Scientist
Ruth Lewin Sime, “Inconvenient History: Nuclear Fissure Display at the German Museum.” Physics of the field of view. 12(2): 190–218 (June 15, 2010)
Katrina Miller: “Why has “Atomic Bomb Mother” never won a Nobel Prize?” New York Times October 2, 2023
