Timothy J. Jorgensen

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Lise Meitner — the forgotten woman of nuclear physics who deserved a Nobel Prize

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Lise Meitner — who broke ground in the study of nuclear physics — remains obscure and largely forgotten. She was excluded from the victory celebration of her discovery because she was a Jewish woman. Her story is a sad one.

This image shows Baker, the second of the two atomic bomb tests

70 years after the first bomb was dropped on their homes, some Bikini islanders are still awaiting compensation

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