Meitner lise biography
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Lise Meitner
Lise Meitner&#;s Timeline
Nov 7th Born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary.
Became the second woman to receive a doctorate degree from the University of Vienna.
Began work at the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut in Berlin.
Meiter and Otto Hahn discovered protactinium.
Received the Leibniz Medal from the Berlin Academy of Sciences.
Became the first woman in Germany to hold a full professorship in Physics, at the University of Berlin.
Began research on nuclear fission.
Because of rising anti-Semitism in Germany, flees to Holland, leaving behind all of her possessions.
Moves to Stockholm, Sweden.
During a visit from her nephew Otto Frisch, received the news that Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann had discovered that the collision of a neutron with a uranium nucleus produced the element barium as one of its byproducts. Together, Frisch and Meitner hypothesized that the uranium nucleus had split in two. They coined the term &#;fission&#; to describe the p
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"I will have nothing to do with a bomb!"
Born in Vienna in , Lise Meitner enrolled at the University of Vienna in and became only the second woman to earn a PhD in Physics from there in After receiving her PhD, Meitner moved to Berlin, Germany to work with physicist högsta Planck and chemist Otto Hahn. Meitner and Hahn would work together for over 30 years; in they co-discovered the element protactinium.
In , Meitner became the first female full professor of physics at the University of Berlin. In , Meitner began her research on nuclear fission. In , with Nazi Germany seizing power, Meitner fled Berlin, first to the Netherlands and then huvudstaden, Sweden. That same year, Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann developed evidence of nuclear fission, but it was Meitner and her nephew, physicist Otto Frisch, who theorized that the process resulted from the uranium nucleus splitting in two. Meitner and Frisch were the first to call the process “fission”, and in they published a scientific pape
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History of Scientific Women
Lise MEITNER
20th century
Fields:Physics
Born: in Vienna (Austria)
Death: in Cambridge (England)
Main achievements: Discovered nuclear fission. First woman in Germany to assume a post of full professor in physics.
Lise Meitner was an Austrian physicist who worked on radioactivity and nuclear physics. Meitner was part of the team that discovered nuclear fission, an achievement for which her colleague Otto Hahn was awarded the Nobel Prize. Meitner is often mentioned as one of the most glaring examples of women's scientific achievement overlooked by the Nobel committee. A Physics Today study concluded that Meitner's omission was "a rare instance in which personal negative opinions apparently led to the exclusion of a deserving scientist" from the Nobel. Element , meitnerium, is named in her honour.
Meitner was born into a Jewish family as the third of eight children in Vienna, 2nd district (Leopoldstadt). Her father, Philipp Meitne