Lise Meitner: Revolutionizing the Atomic World

Поделиться
HTML-код
  • Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
  • Check out Squarespace: squarespace.com... for 10% off on your first purchase.
    → Subscribe for new videos four times per week.
    www.youtube.co...
    This video is #sponsored by Squarespace.
    TopTenz Properties
    Our companion website for more: biographics.org
    Our sister channel TopTenz: / @toptenznettop10
    Our Newest Channel about Interesting Places: / @geographicstravel
    Credits:
    Host - Simon Whistler
    Author - D. Kelly
    Producer - Jennifer Da Silva
    Executive Producer - Shell Harris
    Business inquiries to biographics.email@gmail.com
    Other Biographics Videos:
    Hugo Chavez: Venezuela’s Savior or Destroyer
    • Hugo Chavez: Venezuela...
    John Pierpont Morgan: The World’s Bank
    • John Pierpont Morgan: ...

Комментарии • 203

  • @Biographics
    @Biographics  4 года назад +17

    Check out Squarespace: squarespace.com/biographics for 10% off on your first purchase.

    • @oshii3585
      @oshii3585 4 года назад

      Nope.

    • @brennaalbright8505
      @brennaalbright8505 4 года назад +1

      Hi

    • @jeremywall7998
      @jeremywall7998 4 года назад

      Hey simon, I just wanted to let you know (responding to your business blaze video about making a living off RUclips). I ALWAYS leave my tv on with RUclips while I go to work with one of your channels running, just so that your getting full ad/video views for whole 8-10 hour days + all I watch when I’m home. I hope it helps!

    • @jakep290
      @jakep290 4 года назад

      Reckful saved my life and many others; please do him justice

    • @chrissinclair4442
      @chrissinclair4442 4 года назад

      How about Biographics on Cassius M. Clay the abolitionist, and John Brown the abolitionist?

  • @QuestionEverythingButWHY
    @QuestionEverythingButWHY 4 года назад +139

    “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
    ― Isaac Asimov

    • @arutka2000
      @arutka2000 4 года назад +5

      That has never been more accurate in modern history.

    • @goochfitness26
      @goochfitness26 4 года назад +1

      arutka2000 facts

    • @jjlortez
      @jjlortez 4 года назад

      Issac Asimov - "Ai Bad"

    • @weedypop9032
      @weedypop9032 4 года назад

      @@goochfitness26 why you making people fight bruh

  • @rhiannonwilliams3716
    @rhiannonwilliams3716 4 года назад +41

    Thank you for making a video about her!
    She was a person who inspired me to write a research paper about the „Matilda effect“ (a term coined by Margaret Rossiter). It’s a bias against acknowledging the achievements of female scientists whose work is attributed to men or erased from history. So thank you very much for giving her the spotlight and showing what a genius she is!

    • @Simonsvids
      @Simonsvids 4 года назад

      Feminist by any chance? What about the human tendency in general to fail to recognise the work contributed by others in a joint project to achieve a particular goal?

    • @rhiannonwilliams3716
      @rhiannonwilliams3716 4 года назад +5

      Simon Jones Yes, I am. That might have influenced me to write about that effect and its affect on our world. I could’ve written about the Mathew-effect or the effect of attention inequality. Both things that go in the direction of what you mentioned and both very interesting and important. I partly chose my theme, because compared to the other two effects there is hardly any research on how it affects us as an individual or as a society.

    • @--enyo--
      @--enyo-- 4 года назад +8

      @@Simonsvids I'd say most people these days would agree that women and men should have equal rights, and are therefore feminists.

  • @QuestionEverythingButWHY
    @QuestionEverythingButWHY 4 года назад +67

    “Life need not be easy, provided only that it is not empty.”
    ― Lise Meitner

  • @HeyMJ.
    @HeyMJ. 4 года назад +63

    Excellent bios, concise & content rich. Presentations are very engaging and straightforward. Thank you for keeping history alive! 📚📖 🙌🏼

    • @joeyr7294
      @joeyr7294 4 года назад +6

      Well said!!! 🍻

    • @oliviagreen7423
      @oliviagreen7423 4 года назад +4

      Agree! I enjoy all of Simon's channels👍 He has intelligence, charm, charisma, and makes most content very interesting. I even subscribed to Megaprojects for that reason even though it's not something I would typically be too interested in☺

  • @richardhigh196
    @richardhigh196 4 года назад +20

    Shame on the Nobel Committee for not only the original oversight, but for apparently doing nothing to put it right in retrospect. Excellent video btw.

  • @QuestionEverythingButWHY
    @QuestionEverythingButWHY 4 года назад +77

    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein

    • @TheLoxxxton
      @TheLoxxxton 4 года назад +5

      'I've got no legs!' Simon whistler (2020)

    • @africanblondi3973
      @africanblondi3973 4 года назад +4

      I think it is very stupid to marry your cousin. Einstein married his cousin twice. E=mc2

    • @weedypop9032
      @weedypop9032 4 года назад

      @@africanblondi3973 this is underrated joke 😂🤦

  • @aikikaname6508
    @aikikaname6508 4 года назад +25

    Here are my list of men and women I’d love to see covered:
    Women:
    - Margaret Thatcher
    - Hedy Lamarr
    - Bloody Mary (her tragic upbringing and how that effected her terrible reign is fascinating)
    - Eleanor of Aquitaine
    - Ching Shih
    - Olympia
    - Empress Marie Theresa
    - Anna Ivananov (Real Life crazy ice Queen)
    Men:
    - Richard III (poor man deserves a fair hearing)
    - Black Bart
    - James I England
    - King John (of Magna Carta fame)
    - Woodrow Wilson
    - Ernst Rohm
    - Tokogawa Ieyasu
    - King Piye

    • @joseffthomas10
      @joseffthomas10 4 года назад

      Aiki Kana me
      Great suggestions 👍

    • @tofupowda
      @tofupowda Месяц назад

      thatcher? piss off

  • @nuwildcat90
    @nuwildcat90 4 года назад +3

    Lise Meitner is the Rosalind Franklin of nuclear physics. Franklin deserves her own Biographic since her X-ray crystallography of DNA was fundamental in the determination that DNA was a double helix molecule. However, instead the stinkpot James Watson with Francis Crick asked Maurice Wilkins to see her results. Watson determined from her pattern that it was a double-helix, and promptly implied that he found the structure of DNA while denying her the credit. He later wrote "Double Helix, The" where he derisively referred to her as Rosie instead of her name Rosalind. She had died earlier so she could not defend herself from how he treated her in his book.

  • @joedoe783
    @joedoe783 4 года назад +4

    This is my favourite channel on RUclips now. Watch about three of these before bed each night. Thanks for the effort.

  • @ethanramos4441
    @ethanramos4441 4 года назад +11

    “Science makes people reach selflessly for truth and objectivity; it teaches people to accept reality, with wonder and admiration, not to mention the deep awe and joy that the natural order of things brings to true scientists”
    Lise Meitner

  • @williamschmidt395
    @williamschmidt395 4 года назад +2

    I love this episode, I'm actually engaged to a Meitner. I've heard stories of this great lady and to see her story on RUclips is great!

  • @aq5426
    @aq5426 4 года назад +2

    Lise Meitner split the atom, and nobody will ever disabuse me of that.

  • @zoperxplex
    @zoperxplex 4 года назад +2

    Boy was she screwed. You would think the Nobel Prize committee would have corrected their mistake by now but, no.

  • @soumyalaha2309
    @soumyalaha2309 4 года назад +24

    This has happened so many times with so many people.... One person getting the credit for the hard work of several..... One of the most famous example is Robert Oppenheimer- "the so-called father of atom bomb". Oppenheimer was just one of the several hundred scientists who was working on the Manhattan project. However, as he was the "so called leader" of the project he got all the glory along with the curses....

    • @spaceman081447
      @spaceman081447 4 года назад

      @Rappa Kalja
      RE: "He got the "glory" for it because he is the one who was asked to lead the entire project, which he did."
      J. Robert Oppenheimer did not "lead the entire project." He was the science director and the head of the research and development labs at Los Alamos, New Mexico. The commander of the entire Manhattan Engineer District (the actual code name for what history calls "the Manhattan Project") was Major General Leslie R. Groves.

    • @spaceman081447
      @spaceman081447 4 года назад

      @Soumya Laha
      RE: "However, as he was the 'so called leader' of the project he got all the glory along with the curses....
      "
      J. Robert Oppenheimer was not "the 'so called leader' of the project." He was the science director and the head of the research and development labs at Los Alamos, New Mexico. The commander of the entire Manhattan Engineer District (the actual code name for what history calls "the Manhattan Project") was Major General Leslie R. Groves.

    • @lindsleycravensii2985
      @lindsleycravensii2985 4 года назад

      It has happened throughout human history and continues to be the case. In every day life, people take credit for other people's hard work when they hire them to build something on their property. The ones paying to have it built often say "I built this ... "
      Also very common in battles and wars too. You almost never know the names of the soldiers on the ground fighting, or the nurses, or supply crews, etc.

  • @ripsumrall8018
    @ripsumrall8018 4 года назад +25

    There needs to be a playlist of females. I didn't learn about so many of them.

    • @angelitabecerra
      @angelitabecerra 4 года назад +2

      He has a playlist of the women he covers on this channel. But not as many videos as one would like.

    • @aikikaname6508
      @aikikaname6508 4 года назад +2

      Angelita Becerra True though tbf I really like some of his choices. From a list about women I’d expect a whole lot on Queen Vic, Marie Curie, Austin and good ol’ Queen Bess. But he really has some more out there but fascinating pics like Noether and Olga of Kiev!

  • @Thennix
    @Thennix 4 года назад +1

    Thank you for 2 good channels, been watching nonstop for soon 3 weeks !

  • @rocketfishx3474
    @rocketfishx3474 4 года назад +2

    I was born on November 17th. I'm so honored to share a birthday with Lise Meitner

  • @jannepellonpaa
    @jannepellonpaa 4 года назад +5

    16:25 *barium and krypton (element 56 + element 36 = element 92 uranium)
    Thanks for making a video of Meitner, had to watch it immediately.

  • @ShadowDragonGT
    @ShadowDragonGT 4 года назад +2

    I love watching the videos they make me feel smarter

  • @ncommino
    @ncommino 4 года назад +3

    This one was excellent 👍 I enjoyed this biography more than the last couple.

  • @m.hughmungus121
    @m.hughmungus121 4 года назад +20

    "Revolution" and "atomic"
    Two words that should never be in the same sentence

  • @tomsmith9769
    @tomsmith9769 4 года назад +1

    some of these are writer so well there make me cry , well done when the movie

  • @markrowland1366
    @markrowland1366 4 года назад

    Thank you for bringing these unknow but great people to us.

  • @jec3676
    @jec3676 4 года назад +1

    Recently found this channel and I love it.

  • @patricksmith3135
    @patricksmith3135 4 года назад

    Simon this video was brilliant. Thanks so much.

  • @JV-lq3tx
    @JV-lq3tx 4 года назад +3

    I've been low key studying atomic theory in my free time, but not once did I hear about any of these physicists. Glad I got to watch this great video and learn about a greatly underappreciated pioneer in the field.

  • @ravellxivrobinson4979
    @ravellxivrobinson4979 4 года назад +12

    You have to do the Emperor of San Francisco... I know you have told me once before have a great reason for my recommendations. But I feel like, if you read his story… you will be eager to do his video

  • @guyshamel8598
    @guyshamel8598 4 года назад +2

    You should make one about John Von Neumann!

  • @nicholaskvaratskhelia2779
    @nicholaskvaratskhelia2779 4 года назад +1

    I loved this video, ceep up the great work!

  • @lrg162
    @lrg162 4 года назад +5

    This is a great well deserved video. I'd also love to also see a video Maria Goeppert Mayer and Marie's daughter Irène Joliot-Curie, both of whom are amazing women who are little known today. Everyone knows Einstein, Heisenberg and Oppenheimer, but they were FAR from the only names.

  • @myownboss1
    @myownboss1 4 года назад +2

    Mr. Simon, you deserve the Nobel for the Internet if there was such a thing! I am 52 and must humbly admit that I have never heard of this woman before today!!! And I consider myself fairly well read and somewhat of a science and science fiction geek; Ive even been watching so many RUclips videos on fission, how nuclear bombs work, the Manhattan Project, and the like, and NO ONE else until you have mentioned this woman!!!! Thank you for all the great videos!!!

  • @therealosama7368
    @therealosama7368 4 года назад +10

    A school in my town is named after her

  • @frederickthorne2496
    @frederickthorne2496 4 года назад

    Simon's Squarespace plugs make me want to invent a reason to create a website.

  • @MrMcGreed
    @MrMcGreed 4 года назад +1

    Thanks for great videos - Please do one on H. C. Ørsted :)

  • @ignitionfrn2223
    @ignitionfrn2223 4 года назад +2

    1:40 - Chapter 1 - Overcoming bias even in youth
    6:25 - Chapter 2 - Climbing the ladder through the glass ceiling
    8:10 - Mid roll ads
    9:55 - Chapter 3 - Lisa Meitner & Otto Hahn
    17:35 - Chapter 4 - Unleashing hell on earth

  • @bryanwallace6370
    @bryanwallace6370 4 года назад +1

    Simon! Do a Biographics on Sally Hemings!

  • @TheChronozoan
    @TheChronozoan 4 года назад

    Simon I love your content, I've watched almost every video you've made, but I have to ask, why does a 21 minute sponsored video need four ad breaks?

  • @CardinalTreehouse
    @CardinalTreehouse 4 года назад +1

    Nuclear physics is so fascinating. It brought the dawn of the atomic age and the atom bomb - which overtook the Halifax Explosion as the largest man-made explosion in history!

  • @monkeydank7842
    @monkeydank7842 4 года назад +3

    “Otto, you have no idea of Physics. Let’s go upstairs.”
    - Lise Meitner to Otto Hahn

  • @judochopmaster8233
    @judochopmaster8233 4 года назад +1

    I will not stop asking.
    *Please do a video on the Civil War General William T. Sherman: Hero or War Criminal(Title Suggestion)*

  • @jordanwilliams9300
    @jordanwilliams9300 4 года назад

    This was awesome.

  • @alexstorr3357
    @alexstorr3357 4 года назад +1

    How frustrating for her to encounter all that bigotry. It makes me angry to think about it. Still, at least she got recognition eventually. Great video.

  • @Three_Sevens
    @Three_Sevens 4 года назад +3

    I was honest with my daughter. I always told her she can do anything a man can do mentally.

    • @jacksavage4098
      @jacksavage4098 4 года назад

      You are so right.

    • @Simonsvids
      @Simonsvids 4 года назад +1

      Theoretically yes, but only if she has the mental capacity to do so. It would be wrong to say she she in particular could be a great philosopher for instance, unless she was born with those particular talents. Same goes for a man or a man who is now a woman or a woman who is now a man!

  • @gta3986
    @gta3986 4 года назад +5

    You fun to watch when I'm bored

  • @HighQueenJamie
    @HighQueenJamie 4 года назад +11

    I think next biographies you should do is Ayn Rand

    • @aikikaname6508
      @aikikaname6508 4 года назад

      Would that mainly be about her life , or would it be more her effect on Conservative politicians in America and Europe

  • @heathergarnham9555
    @heathergarnham9555 4 года назад

    Since it's the International Year of the Nurse ans Midwife would you consider covering a few incredible nurses?
    If so I would recommend Vivian Bullwinkle, survived a ship sinking, a massacre, a POW camp and was involved in Operation BabyLift.

  • @pl3xify
    @pl3xify 4 года назад +1

    I'd love to see one on the Kray brothers

  • @savilene9773
    @savilene9773 4 года назад

    Love the biographics! Any chance of one on Thomas Paine? Or some like...mini-graphics? A sort of 10 minute bullet pointy/crash course kinda biographic?

  • @Mr.E.Shoppa
    @Mr.E.Shoppa 4 года назад

    Had no idea she existed! Thank you!

  • @dr.buzzvonjellar8862
    @dr.buzzvonjellar8862 4 года назад

    More please!

  • @Jowakiine
    @Jowakiine 4 года назад

    I recommend making a Biography about Margaret Eleanor Whiting an American singer who was popular during the 1940s to 1950s

  • @Idle724
    @Idle724 4 года назад +1

    i think you should do one on mehmed the conqueror

  • @golfgrabu
    @golfgrabu 4 года назад +2

    Thanks Simon for making me learn about historical events.

  • @chriswaltman5313
    @chriswaltman5313 4 года назад

    Another great episode Simon. May I suggest mountain man Jim Bridger? Fur trapper, fluent in 4 languages, and he forgot more about native americans than we will ever know.
    Also individuals like Joseph Smith and Brigham Young. The expansion of the mormon religion played a critical role in the expansion of the American west. I hope that you find those suggestions helpful to your channel.

  • @krisjooganah3253
    @krisjooganah3253 4 года назад +3

    Hi Simon great listening to your videos. Can you pls do a bio on Mary Seacole, she was a Jamaican British nurse who served in the Crimean War during 1854. All the troops admired so much they called her Mother Seacole, over Florence Nightingale. It marks the anniversary of the NHS. Best Regards from the UK

  • @melanezoe
    @melanezoe 4 года назад

    This is rapidly becoming my favorite channel of all you do, Simon. Kudos to you and the writers.

  • @sunraesolar
    @sunraesolar 4 года назад

    Loved the video, now please do one on Nelson Mandela.

  • @skipwebb3787
    @skipwebb3787 4 года назад

    Not sure if this is the right place but given the current events can you do a video on the Buffalo Soldiers who helped with the Big Burn? They didn't get nowhere near enough credit as the white firefighters did. (Even though it was the Buffalo Soldiers that prevented an entire town from burning)

  •  4 года назад

    Another lady Rosalnd Franklin made a great contribution for DNA discovery. She passed way early. Nobel committee did not give credit who passed away. What a shame.

  • @derekschmidt2703
    @derekschmidt2703 4 года назад

    I know that youve said before that videos like this don't get the views, but that's why they are the most important to make. Thank you and your team for continuing to teach and inform about these important women!

  • @rohannalawade3227
    @rohannalawade3227 4 года назад

    This reminds us that science is shaped not only by genius minds but also by kind souls like Boltzmann. You have my respect sir. Plank fu.

  • @flynnion82
    @flynnion82 4 года назад

    I really want you to do one of these about the Kray twins

  • @DimNarz
    @DimNarz 4 года назад

    No mention of Earnest Rutherford?

  • @vukhanh2012
    @vukhanh2012 4 года назад

    Make a video about Justice Bao, he’s one of the most famous judges in the world, bringing justice and order to ancient china, many corrupt bureaucrats have died at his hands

  •  4 года назад

    Well done Honor the women.

  • @christianwilliams8967
    @christianwilliams8967 4 года назад

    You should do a Biographics on Buford pusser the sheriff who was also a wrestler and a marine

  • @marcusburrell8023
    @marcusburrell8023 4 года назад

    Could you guys do a video on the Buffalo Soldiers?

  • @ag4444
    @ag4444 4 года назад

    the auditorium of my university is named after her, but I never looked into what she actually did, so that video was very interesting to me

  • @stephaniewheeler3331
    @stephaniewheeler3331 4 года назад

    I do enjoy these videos. Can I request one on Sophie Scholl? (Or did I miss it?)

  • @questionreality6003
    @questionreality6003 Год назад

    great presentation, sounds like you care about her, one of the greatest women ever in science and morality. RIP, great one, worry not. Hahn? poor relatives they must so embarrassed to be related to him.

  • @twocvbloke
    @twocvbloke 4 года назад

    There's a lot of injustice in history, lacking of giving credit where it is due, all thanks to people who have a self-appointed superiority over others, and it continues to this day...

  • @walterscogginsakathesilver6246
    @walterscogginsakathesilver6246 4 года назад

    A hero that was not ment to be.

  • @thenamelesschannel2334
    @thenamelesschannel2334 4 года назад

    Can you do a video on Emmeline Pankhurst?

  • @kaylabryant1696
    @kaylabryant1696 4 года назад

    Ouuu you should do John Horse the Black Seminole !

  • @jasondsp
    @jasondsp 4 года назад

    Can you cover Mark Twain?

  • @state_song_xprt
    @state_song_xprt 4 года назад

    Hey, Simon! If you'reever looking to do another video on a Jewish woman scientist who was left out of a Nobel Prize that she should absolutely have shared, it would be awesome to see a video on Esther Lederberg!

  • @poopstudios8602
    @poopstudios8602 4 года назад

    Could you maybe do albert speer?

  • @Diego_alvarez98
    @Diego_alvarez98 4 года назад

    can you do James or Charles Stuart and the Jacobite risings

  • @marcusblackwell2372
    @marcusblackwell2372 4 года назад

    Request: Elvis. Yes, I know but seriously, he has a LOT of personal stories. And, he may've even covered tunes you didn't know he did.
    As a start, when he was on Ed Sullivan, he wanted to sing Peace In The Valley... Something the crew of it didn't want but he did it anyway... Even if unwillingly on Ed Sullivan's part. I'm not the best at explaining it

  • @imaplatypus0073
    @imaplatypus0073 4 года назад

    Simon could you possibly do a Biograph On Lemmy from motörhead?

  • @luckboyish
    @luckboyish 4 года назад

    How about one on Max Planck

  • @xxmichaelxx7831
    @xxmichaelxx7831 4 года назад

    John Vincent Atanasoff next plese :D?

  • @shubhamvishwakarma6403
    @shubhamvishwakarma6403 4 года назад

    Kindly make video on Richard feynman.

  • @registeelix
    @registeelix 4 года назад

    Can you do your biography?

  • @FreeeKurdistan
    @FreeeKurdistan 11 месяцев назад

    I wished she was in the movie Oppenheimer too..

  • @95fdillon
    @95fdillon 4 года назад

    Can you please do one on Timothy dexter? The man, the myth, the idiot.

  • @ramitchatterjee9626
    @ramitchatterjee9626 4 года назад

    When you'll come back to visual politik EN ?

  • @meagtaylor3392
    @meagtaylor3392 4 года назад

    She seems like a truly remarkable woman.

  • @flatplant
    @flatplant 4 года назад

    Oh how the world today could be so different if the history of women's contributions especially in STEM fields wasn't just swept under the rug for hundreds if not thousands of years.

  • @Pitunia223
    @Pitunia223 4 года назад

    Could you do David Bowie?

  • @Menapho
    @Menapho 4 года назад

    So happy you told her story. A travesty she was excluded!

  • @theshadowman1398
    @theshadowman1398 4 года назад

    I don't get why all of them were horrified by what atom bombs could do. It's not horrifying at all. It's a fast clean explosion that flattens everything.

  • @0ld_Scratch
    @0ld_Scratch 4 года назад

    Please do Charles Lindbergh!

  • @jaytrace1006
    @jaytrace1006 4 года назад

    Feminine handiwork! Nice one, Simon!

  • @jakep290
    @jakep290 4 года назад

    PLEASE DO ONE ON RECKFUL; he saved my life and many others

  • @Mumrik93
    @Mumrik93 4 года назад

    Please make a Biographic of Swedens Legendary Prime Minister, Olof Palme!

  • @TheTrueOnyxRose
    @TheTrueOnyxRose 4 года назад

    We got a pandemic, right? If you get the chance, could you please do a bio on Giovanni Bocaccio? (Author of the Decameron.)
    Thanks.

  • @solitarysnowwhite
    @solitarysnowwhite 4 года назад

    There is also one german high school in Geldern, Northrhine-Westfalia named after her. Maybe even more, I'm not sure.

  • @113dmg9
    @113dmg9 4 года назад

    Do you, your writer(s), and your producer(s) ever sleep (or even slow down a little bit)?

    • @113dmg9
      @113dmg9 4 года назад

      Or are you secretly like AI or something?

    • @christinebenson518
      @christinebenson518 4 года назад +1

      @@113dmg9 He is a clone. There are at least 3 of him since he has so many RUclips channels.

    • @113dmg9
      @113dmg9 4 года назад

      @@christinebenson518 - Thanks for your confirmation. I knew something was up. He never seems to have bad or uninteresting videos... especially since Mary Poppins is technically the only "practically perfect in every way" person I'm aware of.