Lise Meitner
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Elise "Lise" Meitner was an Austrian and Swedish nuclear physicist who was instrumental in the discovery of nuclear fission.
Meitner, c. 1960
Meitner in 1906
Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn in 1912
Meitner and Hahn in their laboratory, in 1913. When a colleague she did not recognise said that they had met before, Meitner replied: "You probably mistake me for Professor Hahn."
Otto Hahn
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Otto Hahn was a German chemist who was a pioneer in the field of radiochemistry. He is referred to as the father of nuclear chemistry and discoverer of nuclear fission, the science behind nuclear reac
Lise Meitner
…in 1949, while insisting on keeping her Austrian citizenship, but relocated to Britain in the 1950s to be with family members. In mid-1938, chemists Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry demonstrated that isotopes of barium could be formed by neutron bombardment of…
Otto Hahn 1970
William Ramsay, London 1905
Ernest Rutherford at McGill University, Montreal 1905