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."
Discovery of nuclear fission
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Nuclear fission was discovered in December 1938 by chemists Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann and physicists Lise Meitner and Otto Robert Frisch. Fission is a nuclear reaction or radioactive decay proces
Lise Meitner
…Elise "Lise" Meitner ( MYTE-ner; German: ; 7 November 1878 – 27 October 1968) was an Austrian and Swedish nuclear physicist who was instrumental in the discovery of nuclear fission. After completing her doctoral research in 1906, Meitner became the second woman to earn a doctorate in physics from the University of Vienna. She spent…
The periodic table c. 1930
Irène Curie and Frédéric Joliot in their Paris laboratory in 1935
Enrico Fermi and his research group (the Via Panisperna boys), c. 1934. Left to right: Oscar D'Agostino, Emilio Segrè, Edoardo Amaldi, Franco Rasetti and Fermi