Lise Meitner

Lise Meitner (7 or 17 November 1878 – 27 October 1968) was an Austria -born, later Sweden physicist who studied radioactivity and nuclear physics.

Biography

Lise 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 scientific achievement overlooked by the Nobel committee. A 1997 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.

References

See Also

• Female Nobel Prize Laureates

External links

• “Lise Meitner” in Wikipedia
• “Lise Meitner” in CWP at UCLA