The Woman Who Split the Atom Audiobook Libro.fm

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Bestselling authorillustrator Marissa Moss tells the gripping story of Lise Meitner the physicist who discovered nuclear fissionAs a female Jewish physicist in Berlin during the early 20th century Lise Meitner had to fight for an education a job and equal treatment in her field like having her name listed on her own research papersMeitner made groundbreaking strides in the study of radiation but when Hitler came to power in Germany she suddenly had to face not only sexism but also lifethreatening antiSemitism as well Nevertheless she persevered and one day made a discovery that rocked the world the splitting of the atom While her male lab partner was awarded a Nobel Prize for the achievement the committee refused to give her any creditSuddenly the race to build the atomic bomb was onalthough Meitner was horrified to be associated with such a weapon A physicist who never lost her humanity Meitner wanted only to figure out how the world works and advocated for pacifism while others called for warThe Woman Who Split the Atom is a fascinating look at Meitners fierce passion integrity and her lifelong struggle to have her contributions to physics recognized