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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...
Feb 7, 2019 · It was a massive leap forward in nuclear physics, but today Lise Meitner remains obscure and largely forgotten. She was excluded from the victory celebration because she was a Jewish woman. Her...
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.
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.
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.
Lise Meitner 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 within physics.
