Review: The Woman Who Split the Atom: The Life of Lise Meitner
The Woman Who Split the Atom: The Life of Lise Meitner by Marissa Moss Harry N. Abrams, 2022 Category: Middle Grade Reviewer: Merle Eisman Carrus Buy at Bookshop.org The Woman Who Split the Atom is an inspiring story of a woman determined to study science in spite of the challenges she faced. Author Marissa Moss takes us through Lise's life from living at home with her family to traveling to Berlin to work with some of the greatest physicists of all time. Though she was a demure, small young woman and intimidated at first, she persisted. Meitner met important professors and scientists, who would be her friends and supporters: Max Planck, Albert Einstein, Heinrich Rubens, and Niels Bohr. She also worked with her nephew Otto Frisch and the man who became her life-long scientific partner, Otto Hahn. She published articles about her scientific findings under the name L. Meitner, so no one would know that these articles were written by a woman. This is an important book, bringing Meitn