Lise Meitner: A Physicist
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Lise Meitner (1878–1968), an Austrian-born nuclear physicist who later worked in Sweden, played an essential role in the discovery of nuclear fission. Her long partnership with Otto Hahn and collaboration with her nephew Otto Robert Frisch helped her understand the splitting of the atom. Nuclear fission led to nuclear power and the atomic bomb. Meitner was invited to participate in the Manhattan Project; however, she declined, saying, “I will have nothing to do with a bomb.” Related video: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/89AZmxrZs0M
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