@Sheril A personal hero of mine.

Max Planck at first refused to let her attend his lectures, because universities were men only at the time. In defending herself, Meitner impressed him so much that he changed his mind. A year later, she was working in his lab.

Also, Hahn may have been given the prize, but Meitner has an element named after her!

@Sheril

Lise Meitner - really great scientist.

Would be nice if at least the majority of contemporary scientists would refuse to work on (banned!) weapons of mass destruction.

Meitner: „Das ist in meinen Augen gerade der große moralische Wert der naturwissenschaftlichen Ausbildung, dass wir lernen müssen, Ehrfurcht vor der Wahrheit zu haben, gleichgültig, ob sie mit unseren Wünschen oder vorgefassten Meinungen übereinstimmt oder nicht.“

@Sheril
Typical male behavior. Take credit for woman's work. Lie about having done the work. Hate the woman for being smarter than him thus try to harm her. The very weakness of male.

70% of valedictorians are women. We are the smarter sex (and yes, that does include math and science)

Women's insurance rates are lower because we are better drivers.

We also make better fighter pilots (less"friendly fire") & police officers.

Google it.

@Sheril Some in the scientific were displeased with the way the Nobel Committee treated her. Later they named a newly discovered element after her, Meitnerium (Mt). Elements named after people is a more exclusive club than the Nobel prize.

Let's see: Lawrence, Rutherford, Seaborg, Bohr, Meitner, Roentgen, Copernicus, Curie, Einstein, Fermi, Mendeleev, and Nobel.

@Sheril

For those who find the science or the people interesting, strongly recommend Richard Rhodes’s “The Making of the Atomic Bomb” which details the people and relationships behind the physics and chemistry which led to …. Meitner receives significant coverage for her scientific contributions. It’s almost a survey of early molecular physics. It’s the kind of book which one can re-read every 10 years. It won the Pulitzer Prize in ‘88 so not exactly unknown, but one of the best ever.

It’s not a war-glorifying book at all, IMHO. Also talks about the effort to deny science to Germany and those who refused to work the project.

@Sheril There is a lovely postcard of Lise Meitner with this photo of hers. The caption reads: "Hähnchen, lass mich das machen, von Physik verstehst du nichts." (Hähnchen [diminutive of Hahn, Meitners nickname for Otto], let me do this, you don't know anything about physics.)

Postcard by Verlag Neue Kritik, Frankfurt/Main https://www.neuekritik.de/wiener-melange-iii.html

Photo credits: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lise_Meitner_(1878%E2%80%931968)_1953_OeNB_USIS_2955727.jpg#mw-jump-to-license

@Sheril Seems like a prime example of how misogynistic the scientific community can be.

I'd like to add @jesswade who has published more than 1700 biographies of female scientists on WikiPedia, which is unfortunately known for being quite biased towards female scientists.

But read for yourself

#science #gender #bias

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2022/10/17/jess-wade-scientist-wikiepdia-women/