Lise meitner
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- "Perhaps you can suggest some fantastic explanation...We understand that it really can't break up." (Sheinkin 14)
- "We have experienced so many surprises in nuclear physics that one cannot say without hesitation about anything: 'it's impossible'" (Sheinkin 14)
- "I don't believe it...There's some mistake" (Sheinkin 14)
- Otto Hahn writes to Lise Meitner about his discoveries on uranium atoms
- She writes back, telling Hahn his discovery was amazing
- This is what could be happening.
- Meitner talks with her nephew, Otto Frisch, about Hahn's discovery over breakfast
- This must be what's happening
- "[They] walked up and down in the snow" (Sheinkin 14) talking about possible explanations.
- "Frisch sketched a diagram of a circle stretching into a long oval shape, and final breaking in two" (Sheinkin 15)
- "They agreed: this must be what happened to the uranium atoms in Hahn's lab" (Sheinkin 15)
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