Recently released documents give the inside story of Otto Hahn's 1944 Nobel prize in chemistry for the discovery of nuclear fission. They reveal flaws in the award-making process — and an attempt to rewrite history.
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Crawford, E., Sime, R. & Walker, M. A Nobel tale of wartime injustice. Nature 382, 393–395 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1038/382393a0
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