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Lise Meitner (1878 – 1968) was an Austrian physicist who interpreted the data and worked out the mathematics to prove that atoms could be split. Although offered work on the Manhattan Project, she refused because she didn’t want to work on a bomb. Because she fled the Nazis, her research partner got credit for the discovery and won a Nobel Prize.
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