In 1938, with Hitler in power, the discovery of nuclear fission was made by the physicist Lise Meitner and the chemist Otto Hahn. This documentary will explore their lives and the work that led them down the path of this discovery.

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Photo Credit: Archiv zur Geschichte der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin-Dahlem

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Narrator: Linda Hunt

A one hour documentary.

This program is scheduled to air on PBS Primetime
in early 2006. Please visit our web site again for more updates.

Rosemarie Reed Productions is proud to have the following serve as advisors and consultants to this project:

Professor Ruth Lewin Sime, author of Lise Meitner: A Life in Physics

Professor Evelyn Fox Keller, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, History Department

Professor Michio Kaku, Graduate Center, City University of New York, Physics Department

Professor Lawrence Badash, University of California at Santa Barbara, History Department

Professor Robert Mark Friedman, Olso University, author of The Politics of Excellence: Behind the Noble Prize in Science

Professor Roger Stuewer, University of Minnesota, Physics Department