Austrian Physicist Lise Meitner was born #OTD in 1878. She was the first to pinpoint the atomic phenomenon now known as the Auger effect, but it was credited to Pierre Auger who independently discovered it months after her. Years later when she made a breakthrough in identifying and understanding nuclear fission, her findings were published only under the name of her collaborator, Otto Hahn, who later also received the Nobel Prize for this discovery. via @IAEA
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I read the other day that many bird species are being renamed, due to the links between their current name and people they are named after being involved with the slave trade..
Perhaps we should look to people like Lise Meitner for inspiration for the new names of birds.
