Fission is in the news, but few recognize that a woman physicist was behind the discovery.

Lise Meitner’s brilliance led to the discovery of nuclear fission. But her long time collaborator Otto Hahn, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry w/o her in 1944, even though she had given the first theoretical explanation.

Albert Einstein called Meitner “our Marie Curie." She also adamantly refused to work on the atomic bomb during WWII. https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201502/physicshistory.cfm #women #history #science #HistoryRemix

The pixie's parasol mushroom (Mycena interrupta), found in Australia, New Zealand, and Chile.

Photo Credit: Steve Sargent
https://www.flickr.com/photos/sargimuss/26650626112

#nature #photography #fungi

“Let’s not forget how many Republicans have chosen to minimize the Jan. 6 attack, which included insurrectionists wearing shirts emblazoned with ‘Camp Auschwitz’ and ‘6MWNE,’ that is, six million were not enough.”

https://america.substack.com/p/hello-nazis-and-nazism-are-bad