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Jun 20, 2024 · “Lise Meitner: a physicist who never lost her humanity.” [1] Electrons reside in sequential orbits around a nucleus encircling it like planets in the solar system move around the sun. “When an electron temporarily occupies an energy state greater than its ground state [like bumping up Mercury to live in Mars’ orbit] , it is in an excited state .
Jun 20, 2024 · Nuclear power, both peaceful and military, is based on atomic fission, unleashing titanic amounts of energy via splitting the nucleus of certain atoms, mainly enriched Uranium U235. In 1944, Otto Hahn received the Nobel Prize for its discovery. Omitted from recognition was his co-discoverer, the first female physics professor in Germany, Dr. Lisë Meitner.
Apr 24, 2024 · Lise Meitner, who was born 140 years ago and died 50 years ago, was a brilliant scientist who had to fight discrimination throughout her life: as a woman in male-dominated natural science, as the child of Jewish parents in Nazi Germany, as a refugee in exile. The fact that Otto Hahn received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry alone in 1945 is closely ...
Jun 29, 2024 · Lise Meitner’s life and work serve as a testament to the power of scientific inquiry and the importance of recognizing the contributions of all individuals, regardless of gender. Despite facing significant obstacles, Meitner persevered in her pursuit of knowledge, making groundbreaking discoveries that have had a lasting impact on our understanding of the universe.
2 days ago · Lisa Meitner dreamed of becoming a scientist at the turn of the 20th century, when girls were supposed to dream of marriage and housekeeping. She fought to earn a PhD in physics, and even became the first woman physics professor at the University of Berlin, but was frustrated when people compared her to Marie Curie &md
3 days ago · Otto Hahn ( pronounced [ˈɔtoː ˈhaːn] ⓘ; 8 March 1879 – 28 July 1968) was a German chemist who was a pioneer in the fields of radioactivity and radiochemistry. He is referred to as the father of nuclear chemistry and father of nuclear fission. Hahn and Lise Meitner discovered radioactive isotopes of radium, thorium, protactinium and ...
6 days ago · Lise Meitner played a major role in the discovery of nuclear fission. As head of the physics section at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin she collaborated closely with the head of chemistry Otto Hahn on atomic physics until forced to flee Berlin in 1938.
