"If wishes were the clouds in the sky, they will one day return to the earth as raindrops...
Life flows like water, and rain is the final answer. The water levels may sometimes tilt one way or another, but the rain falls fairly upon all."
70 years ago, a woman discovered nuclear fission.
But her male colleague stole her work and won the Nobel Prize.
She fled Nazi Germany empty handed and died without a word.
Here's how the biggest theft in science buried Lise Meitner's name in history: 🧵