Remembering Miss Meitner

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Lise Meitner (1878 – 1968) was a woman physicist who discovered, in collaboration with Otto Hahn, nuclear fission in 1938, but was overlooked by the Nobel Prize Committee. Otto Hahn received an undivided prize in 1945 for the discovery. Because of her Jewish origin, Meitner fled Germany in July 1938 and settled in Sweden where she worked in the laboratory of Manne Siegbahn, despite the difficulty caused by Siegbahn’s prejudice against women in science. In the play, the relationship between Meitner, Hahn, and Siegbahn is explored.