Research topic: Lise Meitner

Lise Meitner , 1878-1968, Austrian-Swedish physicist and mathematician. She was professor at the Univ. of Berlin (1926-33). A refugee from Germany after 1938, she became associated with the Univ. of Stockholm and with the Nobel Institute at Stockholm. In 1917, working with Otto Hahn , she isolated the most stable isotope of the element protactinium ; she also investigated the disintegration products of radium , thorium , and actinium and the behavior of beta rays. In 1938 she participated in experimental research in bombarding the uranium nucleus with slow-speed neutrons. Meitner... Read more