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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.
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...
Nov 7, 2019 · An Austrian-Swedish physicist who co-discovered nuclear fission before fleeing the Nazis. Look along the bottom row of a standard periodic table and, at number 108, you’ll find...
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...
Lise Meitner. (1878 - 1968) Lise Meitner was born on November 7, 1878, in Vienna, Austria. The third of eight children of a Jewish family, she entered the University of Vienna in 1901, studying physics under Ludwig Boltzmann.
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 · In Lise Meitner: A Life in Physics Ruth Sime has produced a magnificent biography that should help to rescue Meitner from undeserved oblivion, drawing on her plentiful correspondence.
Feb 7, 2019 · Lise Meitner — who broke ground in the study of nuclear physics — remains obscure and largely forgotten. She was excluded from the victory celebration of her discovery because she was a Jewish woman.
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.
