Go Deeper

• Lise Meitner: A Life in Physics by Ruth Lewin Sime — The definitive biography. Sime reconstructs both the science and the systematic process by which Meitner was displaced — drawing on personal correspondence, lab notebooks, and the Nobel committee archives.
• The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes — Rhodes documents the full arc of fission physics from discovery to Trinity. Meitner's role is given its proper weight — a corrective to the standard histories that center Hahn.
• Uranium: War, Energy, and the Rock That Shaped the World by Tom Zoellner — Traces the political and scientific history of nuclear energy from pitchblende to the bomb, including the exile and erasure of Jewish scientists whose work made it possible.