Jamais on ne parle de cette femme dans les manuels scolaires, celle qui a découvert la formule de la bombe atomique. Après Hiroshima, elle a refusé de donné sa formule aux militaires et a été occultée par les étudiants en chimie. Comme elle était femme (et Juive), on lui a refusé le prix Nobel de chimie qui devait lui revenir.

Lise Meitner, (1878-1968) A Jewish scientist, she escaped from the Nazis to Sweden in 1938, and carried out the key calculations that led to the discovery of nuclear fission. Her collaborator, Otto Hahn, who stayed behind in Germany, was the sole recipient of the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1944. In 1997 Meitner was finally honored when element 109 was named meitnerium.
Lise Meitner was an Austrian, later Swedish, physicist who worked on radioactivity and nuclear physics. Meitner was part of the team that discovered nuclear fission, an achievement for
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