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Premium Content Lise Meitner and the Atomic Bomb

by Salvador Bou - October 30, 2006

If you could spend a half hour talking with a significant figure, living or dead, from the world of politics, science, or the arts, who would that person be, and what would you talk about?

A person I would be interested in meeting would be Ms. Lise Meitner, an Austrian physicist whose work led to the creation of the atomic bomb. I have always been intrigued about how she might have viewed her scientific discovery and her role in history. If I had a chance to meet her, I would focus our conversation on the time before the start of…

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