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Oct 15, 2026
THE WOMEN WHO HELPED UNLOCK THE ATOM.
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4:16Anish SherinHOST
And in Germany especially, there was little appetite to revisit a story that rejected so poorly how a brilliant scientist had, had been treated because of her religion, her gender, her gender, and her accent.
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4:39Anish SherinHOST
It took until 1966 for a, a measure of, of correction to arrive when Hahn, Meitner, and Strassmann were jointly awarded the US Enrico Fermi Award, formally recognized all three as co-discoverers.
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5:05Anish SherinHOST
And in 1997, scientists named a newly discovered chemical element meitnerium in her honor.
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5:18Anish SherinHOST
Meitnerium in her honor.
ATOMICALLY SPEAKING | Doomed to Cooperate: A Conversation with Dr. Siegfried "Sig" Hecker
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2:48Dan PonemanHOST
And he's now emeritus professor at Stanford.
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2:51Dan PonemanHOST
And one of the truly impressive things to me, those of us in the field will appreciate, he is the recipient of the Presidential Enrico Fermi Award.
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2:59Dan PonemanHOST
And for those of you who saw the movie Oppenheimer, I think it's recorded in there that on December 2nd, if my memory serves, 1963, Oppenheimer received the Fermi Award from President Lyndon Johnson, who'd only been in office about 10 days at that time.
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3:14Dan PonemanHOST
Sig, welcome.