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...Lise Meitner, 67, refugee German physicist, pioneer contributor to the atomic bomb, arrived in New York City by plane from England, got a push-&-pull welcome from newsmen and relatives. Black-clad, quiet Dr. Meitner stepped from the plane, saw the crowd, promptly stepped back in again, got hold of herself, finally reemerged. Reporters let go with questions, cameramen with flash bulbs. A spotlight's fuse blew. "I'm so awfully tired," said Dr. Meitner. Relatives bustled her off. Next day she was in at the unveiling of the man-made meson (see SCIENCE). Next stop, after...
...nominate for TIME Cover Face of the Year, a Woman of 1945, Dr. Lise Meitner, the Austrian Jewish woman scientist who developed the formula that broke open the atom. Many of your readers, no doubt, will be nominating Roosevelt or Truman or Stalin, and each of these is a worthy choice, but Dr. Meitner's contribution, I believe, will far outweigh the contributions that the others have made. For, as TIME has repeatedly pointed out, this is the atomic age, and the bomb will play a tremendous part in deciding whether the world of the future will have peace...
Hahn had been repeating experiments performed by a onetime colleague, Lise Meitner, a Jewish woman scientist who had fled from Hitler's Reich to Copenhagen. Meitner's own experiments had puzzled her-but when she saw Hahn's report she guessed that the huge uranium atom had been broken into two nearly equal fragments...
...this idea on to Denmark's great atomist, Niels Bohr, who was just about to leave for Princeton. Bohr told U.S. experimenters about it. They sprang to their atom-smashing machines and quickly confirmed it (TIME, Feb. 6, March 13, 1939). They also stood gallantly back while Dr. Meitner published the first notes on uranium splitting. She called it "fission," a familiar word in biology but a new term for physics...
...scientist"-also as a good lecturer, an amiable and energetic man. Last week the "fission" of the uranium atom definitely looked like a find of Nobel Prize calibre. But present German law forbids Germans to accept Nobel Prizes. Meanwhile, physicists have unofficially distributed some of the credit to Liese Meitner in Stockholm (a woman physicist) and R. Frisch of Copenhagen, who presented a fine interpretation of what happened when the uranium atom cracked. Some credit also went to Nobel Laureate Irene Curie-Joliot (daughter of Marie Curie) and P. Savitch of Paris, who had done work which helped Hahn identify...