To historians, physicist Lise Meitner deserves to be placed on a par with Einstein, Heisenberg and Otto Hahn. In the 1930s on the verge of World War II, she led a small group of scientists who discovered that splitting the atomic nucleus of uranium releases enormous energy. This extraordinary film tells the story of a woman who was far ahead of her time as a scientist and a pioneer of feminism.

• DirectorWolf von Truchsess
• Release2 February 2013
• Genre
  Documentary / History
• Duration0h 52m
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• Productions

  Westend Film & TV, ZDF, ARTE