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Lise Meitner (left) and Leo Szilard (Photos in public domain)
July 27, 2023, 3:22 pm
‘Oppenheimer’ — the prequel: Two other Jewish physicists who helped ignite the nuclear age
Leo Szilard conceived of the "nuclear chain reaction" almost a decade before the Manhattan Project. Lise Meitner used Albert Einstein's E=mc2 to first explain "nuclear fission."
By Carl Litman Kurlander and Thomas Michael Kurlander
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