Discoverer of nuclear fission, an achievement for which her lab partner Otto Hahn received the Nobel Prize. "Science makes people reach for truth and objectivity and teaches people to accept reality, with awe and wonder."Read more
Ida Tacke and her husband published a paper in which they stated that ‘uranium, upon receiving neutrons, could be broken down into large fragments which would be isotopes of known elements, but not neighbours of the irradiated element’. This was the first prediction of what would later be called nuclear fission.Read more
Katharine Way carried out analyses of neutron flux data from Enrico Fermi's nuclear reactor designs to see if a self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction could be achieved. These calculations were used in the construction of the Chicago Pile-1 reactor.Read more