jun 8, 1938 - Lise Meitner - Nuclear Fission (1938)
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Along with Otto Hahn, Meitner discovered the process of nuclear fission in which the nucleus in an atom can be split to form a pair of nuclei. However, when Hahn reported this new discovery to the world he took all the credit and barely mentioned Meitner's name.
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