![]() ![]() In his memoirs, Hahn has remarkably little to say of his closest colleague and friend. ![]() Often she is cast as Hahn's Mitarbeiterin sometimes she is completely invisible, as in one of the world's great science museums, which for 30 years displayed the fission apparatus–equipment assembled by Lise Meitner on a table in her laboratory in her physics section of the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Chemie-without ever mentioning her name. One writer sees her work “crowned by the Nobel Prize for Otto Hahn” another, once director of an institute that bears her name, portrays her as the physicist who obstructed the discovery from the start. Especially in Germany the staging seldom varies: Otto Hahn in the spotlight, Fritz Straßmann in his shadow, Lise Meitner in the wings, dimly outlined in reflected light. Of her pioneering work in nuclear physics, little is said she is remembered primarily for nuclear fission, a discovery in which she did not share. Much has been written about Lise Meitner, but she remains on the periphery. ![]()
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