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 I do have one small quibble with the NYT piece. The headline calls Meitner the “Mother of the Atomic Bomb.”

No. Meitner helped discover nuclear fission & foresaw its dangerous potential. BUT she refused to work on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, famously declaring,  “I will have nothing to do with a bomb!” 

Her gravestone reads, “Lise Meitner: a physicist who never lost her humanity.” /2