Lise Meitner
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 proc...
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Meitner, Lise (1878–1968)
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 ...
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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 wom...
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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 u...
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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 u...
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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 Universi...
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Lise Meitner
Meitner, Lise (1878-1968)
Lise Meitner
Lise Meitner
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