Which of the statements demonstrates how a societal issue can hinder scientific advancement?
lise meitner received word from otto hahn, she consulted with her nephew, otto frisch, a fellow physicist and suggested that the fission of uranium was the cause of the presence of barium atoms.
and strassman showed that elements with an atomic number below 90 could be split apart by bombarding the elements with higher energy particles, but many nuclear scientists developed cancer as a result.
..otto hahn and fritz strassman discovered nuclear fission by bombarding uranium with neutrons, but it was their colleague lise meitner who was able to explain why barium was found as a product in their research.
.lise meitner had been a physicist in her native germany until 1938, when she was forced to interrupt her research and flee because her jewish heritage made her a target of nazi persecution there.