March is considered Women’s History Month, serving as a way to fully acknowledge and celebrate female contributions that have been hidden or forgotten for centuries. For a long time, women have been thought of as subordinated to men and were rarely able to showcase their talents due to the limited educational opportunities provided for them. Women’s History Month actually started as a day on March 8th, 1980, and then a week, and finally was declared a full month in 1987 by President Jimmy Carter. Lise Meitner’s story is a strong example of a woman’s hard work and discoveries being stolen by a man. Lise was born on November 7th, 1878 into a Jewish family in Vienna. Meitner worked with chemist Otto Hahn and physicist Max Planck for thirty years in the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin. During this time, they co-discovered the element protactinium and the process of nuclear fission. Lise escaped Nazi Germany by fleeing to Sweden, where she explained and named “nuclear fission” with her nephew, Otto Frisch. Despite their separation, Otto Hahn and Lise continued to work together. However, Hahn was credited with the discovery of nuclear fission and won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1944. After her death, Lise’s contributions and discoveries were acknowledged and celebrated through their lasting impact on the scientific community.