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Germany joins in
A team in Berlin began investigation neutron-induced uranium decay. However they operated under two false assumptions that made their findings false. -
The beginning
Italian physicist Enrico Fermi and his team bombarded a sample of uranium with neutrons. His team recorded that some of the uranium seemed to have absorbed the neutrons and undergone Beta decay -
Meitner's exile
Meitner was the leader of the group, but she was Jewish in Germany during the Nazi party, she left to Sweden to avoid persecution. -
A shocking discovery
The team re-examined their evidence because Meitner couldn't find a satisfying physical explanation to their findings. It turns out that were looking in the wrong place for the cause of the results. They found what they were looking for -
Nobel Prize
For the discovery of nuclear fission Hahn (one of the people on the team) got a nobel prize in chemistry -
Nobel prize pt. 2
Because of the war Lise Meitner wasn't able to receive the corresponding award in physics until after her death