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Lise Meitner

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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
Meitner, Lise
Meitner, Lise AUSTRIAN PHYSICIST 1878 –...a Nobel Prize but did not, Lise Meitner's name would be near the top. She...recognition for her crucial work. Meitner retired to England where she died...Foundation. Sime, Ruth Lewin (1996). Lise Meit Read more
Lise Meitner
Lise Meitner Lise Meitner (1878-1968) helped to develop the theory behind nuclear fission...generous; and underrecognized. In many ways Austrian-born physicist Lise Meitner embodies that image. In 1938, along with her nephew Otto Robert Frisch... Read more

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