Lise meitner

Lise Meitner (1878-1968), Austria and Sweden, physicist. Discovered nuclear fission. Being a woman and a jew, her name was erased from her publications, merit and nobel prize going to her collegue Otto Hahn.

Lisa Meitner

Amalie "Emmy" Noether In 1935, Albert Einstein wrote an eloquent letter to the New York Times to commemorate the life of Emmy Noether and stated: "In the judgment of the most competent living mathematicians, Fraulein Noether was the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began."

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Lise Meitner, Austrian-born physicist who, with her nephew Otto Frisch, elucidated the physical characteristics of nuclear fission. She and Otto Hahn were among the first to isolate the isotope protactinium-231, and with Hahn and Fritz Strassmann she investigated the products of neutron bombardment of uranium.

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Creator: Briggs, C.A Subject: Meitner, Lise 1878-1968 Catholic University of America Type: Black-and-white photographs Date: 1946 Topic: Physics Women scientists Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2008-5996] Summary: In 1938, Austrian-born physicist Lise Meitner (1878-1968) fled Germany and eventually became a Swedish citizen. After World War II, Meitner received many awards, including being named "Woman of the Year" at the National Press Club in 1946. She was a Visiting Professor of Physics…

Lise Meitner (n. Elise Meitner) was a physicist born in Vienna, Austria. She achieved two major results in nuclear physics, the discovery of the element protactinium and nuclear fission.

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Bestselling author-illustrator Marissa Moss tells the gripping story of Lise Meitner, the physicist who discovered nuclear fissionAs a female Jewish physicist in Berlin during the early 20th century, Lise Meitner had to fight for an education, a job, and