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Nuclear physics

Overlooked for the Nobel: Lise Meitner

05 Oct 2020 Margaret Harris

The 2020 Nobel Prize for Physics will be announced on Tuesday 6 October. In the run-up to the announcement, Physics World editors have picked some of the people who they think have been overlooked for a prize in the past

Photo of Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner
Collaborators: Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner in 1912, a few years into their 30-year working relationship.
The discovery of nuclear fission in 1938 is among the most momentous events in 20th-century physics.

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Margaret Harris is an online editor of Physics World
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