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When it was clear that working with a Jew would seriously damage his reputation, Hahn ended their partnership. He still turned to her constantly to interpret results in terms of physics, since he could understand them only in terms of chemistry, but the days of submitting papers together were over. Meitner’s name was stripped from those they’d previously published, part of the Jewish purge from academia.
The Woman Who Split the Atom: The Life of Lise Meitner
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