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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 the discovery of 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.
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 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...
Nov 7, 2019 · 7 November 1878 – 27 October 1968. An Austrian-Swedish physicist who co-discovered nuclear fission before fleeing the Nazis. Look along the bottom row of a standard periodic table and,...
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...
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.
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.
Jun 27, 2018 · MEITNER, LISE (1878–1968), physicist and one of the small group responsible for the discovery of atomic fission. Born in Vienna, she moved to Berlin in 1917 and there joined the distinguished chemist Otto Hahn, with whom she worked in collaboration, researching into radioactive substances.
Mar 9, 1996 · Meitner, rare as a positron in a sea of electrons, was a female physicist in 1907 Berlin, when women’s access to higher education was barred. She was a Jew; she was also a timid...
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