Lise Meitner
Austrian-Swedish physicist
- Fame64.5
- Momentum0.0
- Austria rank#68
- Fame64.5
- Momentum0.0
- Austria rank#68
- Scientists rank#187
- Wikipedia35.7K
AustriaShe worked out the physics of splitting the atom — named the process "fission" — then watched the 1944 Nobel go to her collaborator alone. Nominated 49 times across two categories, never awarded, yet element 109 bears her name.
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Lise Meitner earned her physics doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1906, the second woman to do so, then spent most of her career in Berlin as a professor and department head at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry — the first woman to become a full professor of physics in Germany. The Nuremberg Laws stripped her positions in 1935; the 1938 Anschluss took her citizenship. On 13–14 July 1938, she fled to the Netherlands with Dirk Coster's help, eventually settling in Stockholm and becoming a Swedish citizen in 1949. That December, her former colleague Otto Hahn sent word of strang…
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