Abstract
A new play dramatizing the life of the physicist Lise Meitner is to be performed for the first time this month. Remembering Miss Meitner, written by the historian Robert Marc Friedman, will be premiered in three Swedish cities – Gothenburg, Stockholm and Umeå. The one-act play analyses Meitner's contribution to the discovery of nuclear fission and looks at why she was never fully recognized for her work. In particular, it examines why her long-standing collaborator Otto Hahn was awarded the 1944 Nobel Prize for Chemistry while Meitner came away empty-handed.