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Culture, history and society

Why is there no Nobel physics prize for nuclear fission?

02 Oct 2023
Photo of Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner
Collaborators: Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner in 1912, a few years into their 30-year working relationship.
This summer, the theoretical physicist Robert Oppenheimer captured widespread public fascination tha

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Hannah Schmalstich is an undergraduate student at Durham University studying physics and philosophy
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