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Jun 20, 2024 · Great Women of Science: Lisë Meitner – The Physicist Who Should Have Won the Nobel Prize. Nuclear power, both peaceful and military, is based on atomic fission, unleashing titanic amounts of energy via splitting the nucleus of certain atoms, mainly enriched Uranium U235.
Jun 29, 2024 · Lise Meitner, a brilliant Austrian-Swedish physicist, played a pivotal role in the discovery of nuclear fission, a groundbreaking scientific breakthrough that revolutionized our understanding of the atom.
Jun 18, 2024 · As a girl, Lise Meitner loved math and physics — but when she was born in the late 1800s, girls weren't supposed to be scientists. She didn't care; she was going to keep learning and discovering. Working with a chemist named Otto Hahn, she built a name for herself as a top-notch physicist. And when Hahn had a res
1 day ago · Lise Meitner, with her Jewish origins, began to feel insecure despite her Austrian nationality and her resulting German citizenship in the Third Reich after the Anschluss (the annexation of Austria by Germany) on March 12, 1938. Concerned colleagues, including Otto Hahn, feared for her safety and helped her flee to Sweden.
5 days ago · Lise Meitner was a physicist credited with discovering that nuclear “fission” occurs when a naturally radioactive uranium nucleus splits into two smaller parts, releasing energy. It is a summary of a longer article published on the “Cranky Ladies of History Blog Tour”.
Jun 24, 2024 · Lise Meitner (7 or 17 November 1878 – 27 October 1968) was an Austrian-born, later Swedish, physicist who worked on radioactivity and nuclear physics. [1] . Meitner was part of the team that discovered nuclear fission, an achievement for which her colleague Otto Hahn was awarded the Nobel Prize.
1 day ago · Hahn and Lise Meitner discovered radioactive isotopes of radium, thorium, protactinium and uranium. He also discovered the phenomena of atomic recoil and nuclear isomerism, and pioneered rubidium–strontium dating.
