International Day of Women and Girls in Science Highlight: Lise Meitner

Sahaana Vijay Abstract As of October 2021, there are 441 operational nuclear reactors in roughly 30 nations.[1] These nuclear reactors  generate power through nuclear fission, which earned Otto Hahn, a German chemist, the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1944.[2] While the prize was unshared, Hahn did not discover nuclear fission alone; he and his long-term colleagues, physicist …

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