In 1938 two chemists and two physicists discovered a scientific phenomenon which made the world’s problems both a lot smaller and a lot bigger. Like every group project since the dawn of time, one person got stiffed in the credits - in this case, Lise Meitner, who wasn’t recognized until much later. They discovered a process called fission [2], which generally goes like this:An atom is made up of electrons, protons, and neutrons [1]. Protons and neutrons make up the nucleus of an atom, and are h

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