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Lise Meitner (/ ˈ l iː z ə ˈ m aɪ t n ər / LEE-zə MYTE-nər, German: [ˈliːzə ˈmaɪtnɐ] ⓘ; born Elise Meitner, 7 November 1878 – 27 October 1968) was an Austrian physicist who was instrumental in the discovery of protactinium and nuclear fission.
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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Mar 29, 2018 · Lise Meitner was a pioneering physicist who studied radioactivity and nuclear physics. She was part of a team that discovered nuclear fission — a term she coined — but she was overlooked...
Learn about Lise Meitner's life and achievements, from her doctorate degree in Vienna to her discovery of nuclear fission with Otto Hahn and Otto Frisch. Find out how she refused to work on the Manhattan Project and why she was snubbed by the Nobel Prize committee.
Oct 2, 2023 · Lise Meitner developed the theory of nuclear fission, the process that enabled the atomic bomb. But her identity — Jewish and a woman — barred her from sharing credit for the discovery, newly...
- Katrina Miller
Nov 7, 2019 · Learn about the life and achievements of Lise Meitner, who co-discovered nuclear fission with Otto Hahn and fled the Nazis. Find out how she was excluded from the Nobel Prize and why she refused to work on the atom bomb.
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Feb 7, 2019 · Lise Meitner was a Jewish physicist who explained the splitting of uranium atoms in a letter to Nature in 1939. She was excluded from the Nobel Prize and the scientific community by racism and sexism, despite her crucial contributions to nuclear physics.
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