Nuclear Fission: A Woman Made It Possible T-Shirt

Lise Meitner was an Austrian-Swedish physicist who made important contributions to the discovery of nuclear fission. Born in Vienna in 1878, Meitner began her career as a physicist at the University of Berlin, where she worked alongside her colleague, Otto Hahn. Together, they conducted pioneering research in the field of atomic physics and were instrumental in the discovery of several new elements. Meitner's most important contribution to science was her role in the discovery of nuclear fission, a process by which the nucleus of an atom is split into two smaller nuclei, releasing a large amount of energy. Although Meitner was the one who first understood the true nature of the process, she did not receive credit for her discovery at the time. Instead, her collaborator Hahn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1944 for the discovery of nuclear fission, while Meitner was overlooked. Despite this setback, Meitner continued to make important contributions to the field of physics, a