Lise Meitner: Mother Of The Atomic Bomb

Lise Meitner - One of the most majorly underlooked physicists due to her gender and all of her work being credited to a man, her partner. Lise Meitner discovered fission, the action of dividing or splitting something into two or more parts in 1945. Although she had nothing to do with the actual creation of the actual atomic bomb, Lise Meitner was known as the, "Mother of the Atomic Bomb," due to her being the first to realize that uranium could undergo a runaway chain reaction that could be used as a bomb. She refused to work on the Manhattan project. During her life she worked on the physics of radioactive substances while heading a section of Berlin's Kaiser for 30 years. This led to the clarification of nuclear physics, which was all done