O. Hahn and F. Strassmann have discovered a new type of nuclear reaction, the splitting into two smaller nuclei of the nuclei of uranium and thorium under neutron bombardment. Thus they demonstrated the production of nuclei of barium, lanthanum, strontium,… — Lise Meitner Copy Share Image
Science makes people reach selflessly for truth and objectivity; it teaches people to accept reality, with wonder and admiration, not to mention the deep… — Lise Meitner Copy Share Image
You must not blame us scientists for the use which war technicians have put our discoveries. — Lise Meitner Copy Share Image
I will have nothing to do with a bomb! [Response to being invited (1943) to work with Otto Robert Frisch and some British scientists… — Lise Meitner Copy Share Image
I love physics with all my heart ... It is a kind of personal love, as one has for a person to whom one… — Lise Meitner Copy Share Image
O. Hahn and F. Strassmann have discovered a new type of nuclear reaction, the splitting into two smaller nuclei of the nuclei of uranium… — Lise Meitner Copy Share Image