The decision comes eight years after the department declassified documents related to a Cold War hearing for Oppenheimer, who was accused of having communist sympathies.
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1960: George William Gordon House (also called Gordon House), the Jamaican Parliament building, is named.
Imagine you are a crucial person in the discovery of something in nature of historic proportions. How would you feel that you have trodden on the soil where nobody in the history of humanity has trespassed? What an honor and joy to discover something about nature that is new to our quest for knowledge. The obstacles in life seem unimportant during those moments of great discoveries. This is precisely what many scientists have experienced in their journey to understanding, among them, Madame professor Lise Meitner (Lise is pronounced "Leeza") (1878 - 1968), the discoverer of nuclear fission, an Austrian-Swedish physicist with Jewish ancestry working in Nazi Germany with chemist Otto Hahn (1879 - 1968). Unfortunately, Hahn was the only one who received the Nobel prize (in Chemistry) for this momentous discovery of splitting the atom and the German military began looking into it in April 1939, long before the Allies (Overlooked Achievement: The Life of Lise Meitner, lecture by R