What Really Happened the First Time We Split a Heavy Atom in Half
This episode was produced in collaboration with and sponsored by Emerson. Click here to learn more about their We Love STEM initiative: http://bit.ly/2fnBiHO When scientists first split the...
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This episode of SciShow is brought to you by Emerson. Visit Emerson.com/WeLoveSTEM to learn more. [♩INTRO] Some of the most important scientific discoveries were famously made by accident like penicillin, plastic, and vulcanized rubber. But there’s one that you don’t hear about quite as often: that time in 1938 when scientists accidentally split an atom and changed the course of history. At first, they did not realize what they had done. That is, until an Austrian physicist named Lise Meitner figured out that they had discovered what we now call nuclear fission. But when a Nobel Prize was awarded for the discovery, it was her research partner who got it. Meitner was born in 1878 in Vienna, Austria. Although Austrian women weren’t taught much mat...
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This episode of SciShow is brought to you by Emerson. Visit Emerson.com/WeLoveSTEM to learn more. [♩INTRO] Some of the most important scientific discoveries were famously made by accident like penicillin, plastic, and vulcanized rubber. But there’s one that you don’t hear about quite as often: that time in 1938 when scientists accidentally split an atom and changed the course of history. At first, they did not realize what they had done. That is, until an Austrian physicist named Lise Meitner figured out that they had discovered what we now call nuclear fission. But when a Nobel Prize was awarded for the discovery, it was her research partner who got it. Meitner was born in 1878 in Vienna, Austria. Although Austrian women weren’t taught much mat...
