What if one of the most important scientific discoveries of the 20th century was made by a woman whose name you've never heard? Lise Meitner was a visionary physicist who fled Nazi persecution and, in exile, provided the theoretical breakthrough for nuclear fission. But her male collaborator took sole credit, winning the Nobel Prize and leaving her to fade into obscurity. An Unbreakable Atom is the gripping, long-overdue account of Meitner's genius, courage, and the staggering injustice that overshadowed her life.
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