Elise "Lise" Meitner (/ ˈliːzə ˈmaɪtnər / LEE-zə MYTE-nər; German: [ˈliːzə ˈmaɪtnɐ] ⓘ; 7 November 1878 – 27 October 1968) was an Austrian-Swedish physicist who was instrumental in the discovery of nuclear fission. Completing her doctoral research in 1906, Meitner became the second woman from the University of Vienna to earn a doctorate in physics.

Meitner collaborated with, ran experiments with and published with Hahn from the makeshift basement laboratory for 5 years (Fig. 1). In 1912, Hahn and Meitner moved together to the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institute (KWI) for Chemistry.

Die Arbeiten von Otto Hahn (1879-1968), Lise Meitner (1878-1968), Fritz Straßmann (1902-1980) und Otto Frisch (1904-1979) führten im Winter 1938/1939 zum chemischen Nachweis und zur physikalischen Aufklärung der Kernspaltung.

2023年10月17日 · Lise Meitner is revered and remembered today as one of the most prominent figures in her field. She was nominated 49 times for the Nobel Prizes in physics and chemistry (but never won an award). She has an element named solely after her; Meitnerium is the only element thus far to honour a woman this way.

In 1912 Otto Hahn accepted an offer to become the junior assistant in charge of the radiochemistry section of the newly founded Kaiser Wilhelm Institute (KWI) for Chemistry. It was a paid position that came with the title of professor. Meitner was now able to move out of her old wood shop to far better facilities at KWI.

Lise Meitner was among the great physicists whose work spanned the development of atomic and nuclear physics in the 20th century. She identified herself as a physicist above all else, but she was...

Lise Meitner was not the only woman to make her mark in the male-dominated world of science. At the KWG, which was more progressive about employing women than other institutions, a total of 113 women were appointed to senior positions between 1912 and 1943.

Meitner was the first woman physics professor in Germany. Early in Meitner's career, an editor of the German encyclopedia Brockhaus asked her to submit an article on radioactivity. Meitner had already published several articles by that time, but went only by her last name.

2016年2月9日 · Until a few months earlier, Meitner and Hahn had worked closely together at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute (KWI) in Berlin, where they studied the effect of bombarding uranium atoms with neutrons. Meitner had moved to Berlin shortly after completing her doctorate degree in her birth city of Vienna.

1996年11月1日 · Lise Meitner was a major player in the development of radioactivity and nuclear physics in the first half of the 20th century. For more than thirty years she collaborated with Otto Hahn, she with expertise in physics, he with expertise in chemistry.