Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lise Meitner was left off the publication that eventually led to a Nobel Prize for her colleague. That all changed on Feb. 11, ...

Sounds pretty dramatic: A Jewish woman, a brilliant mathematician/physicist, flees Nazi genocide, makes a historic contribution to the World War II defeat of fascism ...

You might have heard of Lise Meitner. A native of Austria, she was the first woman to become a full professor of physics in Germany. She also helped discover nuclear fission. Yet the 1944 Nobel Prize ...