Les fabuleuses / Exil intérieur

For a long time, women scientists were made invisible, even when they made major discoveries that sometimes changed the face of the world. Deprived of the awards and recognition reserved for their male colleagues, they were forgotten and erased from the history of science. The theatrical series Flammes de science wishes to do them justice by telling their stories.

This episode of the theatrical series (Les fabuleuses) traces the journey of Lise Meitner. An Austrian physicist of Jewish descent, she collaborated with German chemist Otto Hahn in Berlin. With Hitler's accession to the chancellorship, her situation became precarious, and she was forced to flee under extremely perilous conditions in 1938. She was the one who, along with her nephew Otto Robert Frisch, proposed the mechanism of nuclear fission, yet Hahn alone was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1944.