Chemist Otto Hahn and physicist Lise Meitner collaborated on
radiochemistry for thirty years in
Berlin. In 1918 they discovered the first long-lived
isotope of
protactinium, and they are also both credited for the 1938 discovery of
nuclear fission. Hahn went on to win the 1944
Nobel Prize for Chemistry alone, but Meitner is regarded as having provided the explanation for Hahn's observations. Meitner had fled Nazi Germany in 1938, preventing joint publication. She is now commemorated in element no. 109,
meitnerium.
Chemist Otto Hahn and physicist Lise Meitner collaborated on
radiochemistry for thirty years in
Berlin. In 1918 they discovered the first long-lived
isotope of
protactinium, and they are also both credited for the 1938 discovery of
nuclear fission. Hahn went on to win the 1944
Nobel Prize for Chemistry alone, but Meitner is regarded as having provided the explanation for Hahn's observations. Meitner had fled Nazi Germany in 1938, preventing joint publication. She is now commemorated in element no. 109,
meitnerium.