A movement is underway in Japan to re-evaluate Lise Meitner, the Austrian physicist who was key to the discovery of nuclear fission and labeled the "Mother of the atomic bomb" despite her refusal to contribute to the Manhattan Project that developed the world's first nuclear weapons.In Japan, essays and a biography about Meitner by an American writer were published in Japanese this year. Manga artist Fumiyo Kono also produced the short story "Lise to Genshi no Mori" (Lise and the Forest of Atoms) in 2018."She was devoted to science but did not stray from the path of humanity," Kono said of …READ FULL ARTICLE
