Nuclear fission

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Um, we were continuing on, um, the Nobel Committee and the Nobel, um, the prize.

In 1944, the Nobel Committee awarded the Nobel Prize in, in chemistry to Otto Hahn alone for the discovery of nuclear fission.

Meitner, whose theoretical insight had made the discovery possible, received nothing.

Nobel achieve records, uh, later showed she would actually been nominated for a Nobel Prize in chemistry nineteen separate times between 1924 and 1948, and the physics prize thirty times between 1937 and 1967, and she never, never, never won either one.

It's worth naming honesty and softening, right? It's not prideful to live on someone else's credit, portraying to be someone else or, or, you know, it, it's, it, it's, it's not right to take that.

The person who, who worked towards it, the struggle, the hard work.

So what's, what the story teaches us, you know? Th- there, there are, uh, at least four lessons in, in the discovery of nuclear fission, you know.

Lesson one, evidence matters, right? Hahn and, uh, you know, Strassmann's chemical results were, uh, crucial because they gave scientists evidence that uranium had produced unexpected lighter element.

The woman who helped unlock the atoms.

The woman who discovered nuclear fission and watched the Nobel Prize go to someone else.

This story is about an extraordinary individual.

And the story revolves around an amazing human being called Lisa Meitner.

The woman who unlocked the atoms.

The woman who sacrificed so much.

The woman who discovered nuclear fission and watched the Nobel Prize go to someone else.

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That was in 1944.

In 1945, the first atomic bomb, a fission device, that's F-I-S-S-I-O-N, released the energy of more than 15,000 tons of dynamite.

And the first H-bomb, the fusion device, 1952, released the energy of 10 million tons of TNT.

Wow.

He died when he was quite elderly in July 1968.

Hahn is the father of nuclear chemistry and specifically nuclear fission, okay? Han and his assistant, a lady named, let's say, Meitner, they discovered the radioactive isotopes of radium, thorium, protactin, and most importantly, uranium.

In the second episode, I'm no physics guy, but I do know something, as much as a layman can kind of understand these things, looking into why uranium is so important and what uranium actually is.

I don't want to bore everybody to death.

what's called atomic recoil and nuclear nuclear isomerism and uh he pioneered uh a lot of techniques that ultimately um gave rise to carbon dating okay so the guy was a the guy was a was was an intellectual giant but um quite literally everybody subsequent every every researcher um engaged in nuclear science specifically uh um weapons-based nuclear research they were they were literally they were literally borrowing from hans research okay that's indisputable and um like i said at in the epoch he was credited as such um it's this idea that you know like oh that the germans were just like these crazy fools and they didn't understand physics or something or i mean that's ass nine beyond belief also like this idea that like oh like you know because of anti-semitism you know the germans didn't have a coterie of top scientific minds like that that's preposterous like not only is that preposterous but quite literally um you know the technology that facilitated the development of nuclear weapons was literally invented by the germans okay um now for background too um han he received in 1944 the nobel prize for chemistry And just we'll get into this again in the second and third episodes.

I think we I think it should probably be a three part series.

But the but but just nuclear fission was that wasn't is the basis for nuclear reactors as well as nuclear weapons.

OK, it makes all those things not just possible, but conceivable.