Lise Meitner helped discover nuclear fission but never won a Nobel Prize for her brilliance despite 49 nominations. WHY NOT?
COMMENT. This is a fine article about Lise Meitner's achievements. But the author attributes the neglect of Meitner to the fact that she was Jewish. I don't think it had anything to do with anti-semitism. THIS WAS MEITNER's CRIME: when Meitner was invited to work on the Manhattan Project, she responded, “I will have nothing to do…