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Lise Meitner: The Mother of the Atom Bomb

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To historians, physicist Lise Meitner deserves to be placed on a par with Einstein, Heisenberg and Otto Hahn. In the 1930s on the verge of World War II, she led a small group of scientists who discovered that splitting the atomic nucleus…

DirectorsWolf von Truchsess·Andreas G. Wagner
WriterWolf von Truchsess
ProducerPetra Maier

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Cast · Directed by Wolf von Truchsess

KL
Katherina Lange
Lise Meitner
EH
Estella Hebert
Lise Meitner
MT
Malte Tönissen
Otto Hahn
MG
Marek Gierszał
Officer Muffat
VK
Volker Kühn
DH
Dietrich Hahn
Self
LS
Lore Sexl
Self
RS
Ruth Sime
Self
CK
Charlotte Kerner
Self
AH
Anne Hardy
Self
MT
Martin Trömel
Self
HLHarald Lesch
Harald Lesch
Self

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