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Lisa Meitner: The Mother of the Atom Bomb

  • February 2013
  • 52mins

  • Documentary
  • History
  • Directed by

    Wolf von Truchsess,

    Andreas G. Wagner,

    Starring

    Katherina Lange,

    Estella Hebert,

    Malte Tönissen,

    Marek Gierszał

    ...

    To historians, physicist Lose Neither deserves to be placed on a par with Einstein, Heisenberg, and Otto Hahn. In the 1930s, on the verge of World War II, she led a small group of scientists who discovered that splitting the atomic nucleus of uranium releases enormous energy. This extraordinary film tells the story of a woman who was far ahead of her time as a scientist and a pioneer of feminism.