Otto Hahn wins the Nobel Prize in Physics for experiments conducted in Germany that prove beyond doubt that uranium fissions when bombarded with neutrons, producing radioactive barium. In reality, the experiments were conducted and designed by Lise Meitner, who agreed not to be named in the article, but published another under her name, which explained the theoretical basis of the experiment. Hahn, not Meitner, won the Nobel Prize in 1944, because the committee in Stockholm was largely pro-German. Meitner would have (more than) a posthumous revenge when a new element (109) was named after her.
