The woman who unwittingly started the Nuclear Age

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After a terrifying escape from Hitler's Germany, Lise Meitner - a humanitarian physicist of Jewish descent - helped unlock nuclear fission, the science driving the atom bomb. But she refused to take part in the Manhattan Project that led to the bombs that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki. (Image: Lise Meitner, Credit: Central Press/Getty Images.)