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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 a Jewish-Austrian physicist who was one of those responsible for the discovery of the element protactinium and would jointly confirm that nuclear fission was a replicable process ...
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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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 in...
Learn about Lise Meitner, the second woman to earn a PhD in Physics from Vienna and the first to become a full professor in Berlin. She co-discovered nuclear fission with Otto Hahn and Otto Frisch, but refused to work on the Manhattan Project or the atomic bomb.
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...
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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.
