Episode 1: Guilt

Chemist Otto Hahn and Physicist Lise Meitner’s discovery of nuclear fission changed the world forever. But their story is deeply complex, featuring the dangerous politics of Nazi Germany, the awarding of just one Nobel prize, and the most dangerous weapons the human race has ever known. Sources: - Sime, R. L. (1996). Lise Meitner: A life in physics (Vol. 11). Univ of California Press. - Hahn, O. (1946). From the natural transmutations of uranium to its artificial fission. Nobel Lecture, December, 13, 1946. - Sime, R. L. (2012). The politics of forgetting: Otto Hahn and the German nuclear-fission project in World War II. Physics in Perspective, 14(1), 59-94. - Scheich, E. (1997). Science, Politics, and Morality: The Relationship of Lise Meitner and Elisabeth Schiemann. Osiris, 12, 143-168. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/301903 - Sime, R. L. (2006). The politics of memory: Otto Hahn and the third Reich. Physics in Perspective, 8(1), 3-51. - Frank, C. (1993). Operation Epsilon: The Farm Hall Transcripts. Univ of California Press. - Walker, M. (2006). Otto Hahn: Responsibility and Repression. Physics in Perspective, 8(2), 116-163.