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Lise Meitner (1878-1968) was an Austrian physicist. Meitner was part of the team that discovered and explained nuclear fission and foresaw its explosive potential. She refused to work on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, declaring, “I will have nothing to do with a bomb!”
St. James Parish Church. Born in Vienna in 1878, Lise Meitner enrolled at the University of Vienna in 1901 and became only the second woman to earn a PhD in Physics from there in 1905. After receiving her PhD, Meitner moved to Berlin, Germany to work with physicist Max Planck and chemist Otto Hahn.
Lived 1878 – 1968. In 1938, Lise Meitner discovered that nuclear fission can produce enormous amounts of energy. She made the discovery in Sweden, after escaping a few months earlier from Nazi Germany. When World War 2 ended, she was acclaimed as the mother of the atom bomb. In fact, she disapproved of both the acclaim and the bomb.
Feb 7, 2019 · Lise Meitner – the forgotten woman of nuclear physics who deserved a Nobel Prize. Published: February 7, 2019 7:28am EST. Author. Director of the Health Physics and Radiation Protection...
Mar 9, 1996 · A woman of substance: Lise Meitner: A Life in Physics. By Tania Monteiro. 9 March 1996. IF scientists could be created by pair-production, like the particle antiparticle pairs that come from...
Jun 27, 2018 · Physics: Biographies. Lise Meitner. Meitner, Lise. views 3,698,221 updated Jun 27 2018. MEITNER, LISE. ( b. Vienna, Austria, 7 November 1878; d. Cambridge, England, 27 October 1968) physics. Meitner was the third of eight children of Hedwig Skovran and Philipp Meitner, a lawyer.
Jan 1, 1998 · January 1, 1998. 1 min read. Lise Meitner and the Discovery of Nuclear Fission. One of the discoverers of fission in 1938, Meitner was at the time overlooked by the Nobel judges. Racial...
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