| Genres: | Documentary, Special Interest |
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To historians, physicist Lise Meitner deserves to be placed on a par with Einstein, Heisenberg and Otto Hahn.
In the 1930s on the verge of World War II, she led a small group of scientists who discovered that splitting the atomic nucleus of uranium releases enormous energy.
This extraordinary film tells the story of a woman who was far ahead of her time as a scientist and a pioneer of feminism.
