Meitner was born in Vienna on November 7, 1878, the third of eight children. She attended the University of Vienna, where she received a doctorate in physics in 1906. She was attracted to the University of Berlin by the work of Max Planck. At Berlin,...

Lise Meitner (1878-1968) helped to develop the theory behind nuclear fission, and became the first woman professor in Germany. The prototypical female scientist of the early twentieth century was a woman devoted to her work, sacrificing family and...

The prototypical female scientist of the early twentieth century was a woman devoted to her work, sacrificing family and personal relationships in favor of science; modestly brilliant; generous; and underrecognized. In many ways Austrian-born physicist...

In a 1959 lecture at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, Lise Meitner reflected that "Life need not be easy, provided that it is not empty." Life was not easy for any Jewish woman scientist in Germany in the first half of the twentieth...

1878-1968 Austrian-Swedish Physicist and Radiochemist Lise Meitner is best known for her role in the discovery that heavy unstable nuclei such as uranium-235 could decay by a fission process in which the nucleus could split into two pieces of nearly...

Lise Meitner (November 17,[1] 1878 – October 27, 1968) was an Austrian born, later Swedish physicist who studied radioactivity and nuclear physics. Lise Meitner was part of the team that discovered nuclear fission, an achievement for which her...

By Ruth Lewin Sime University of California Press, 1996 526 pages; $34.95 Ruth Sime has written a superb biography of Lise Meitner, a physicist born and raised in Vienna, who lived and worked in Berlin between 1907 and 1938, and who spent...

Lise Meitner and the Dawn of the Nuclear Age by Patricia Rife, Foreword by John Archibald Wheeler. Birkhauser, 432 pp., $39.95. The dramatic tale of the discovery of nuclear fission on the eve of World War II has been told before, but never...