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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...
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.
Feb 7, 2019 · Lise Meitner – the forgotten woman of nuclear physics who deserved a Nobel Prize. Published: February 7, 2019 7:28am EST. Director of the Health Physics and Radiation Protection Graduate...
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!”
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...
Nov 7, 2019 · Lise Meitner | Physicist who co-discovered nuclear fission | New Scientist. 7 November 1878 – 27 October 1968. An Austrian-Swedish physicist who co-discovered nuclear fission before fleeing the...
Aug 29, 2017 · Honoring a Pioneering Woman in Physics. Lise Meitner solved the problem of nuclear fission—and although she never got the Nobel, she is the only woman outside of mythology to have an element...
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