Word: meitner
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Dates: during 1939-1939
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...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...