Lise Meitner: The Mother of the Atom Bomb

Name: Lise Meitner: The Mother of the Atom Bomb
Director: Wolf von Truchsess
Genre: Documentary, History
Released: 2013-02-02
Duration: 52 min
Rating: 9
Cast: Katherina Lange, Estella Hebert, Malte Tönissen, Marek Gierszał, Volker Kühn

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Lise Meitner: The Mother of the Atom Bomb

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Westend Film & TV

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2013-02-02

Lise Meitner: The Mother of the Atom Bomb

To historians, physicist Lise Meitner 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.

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