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<p><b>Lise Meitner</b> (7 or 17 November 1878 – 27 October 1968) was an [Pagelink infos="Gender Equality in Austria|Gender Equality in Austrian"]-born, later [Pagelink infos="Gender Equality in Sweden|Swedish"] physicist who studied radioactivity and nuclear physics.<ref name="nytobit">[DoubleBrace]cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Lise Meitner Dies; Atomic Pioneer, 89. Lise Meitner, Physicist, Is Dead. Paved Way for Splitting of Atom. |url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9C00E0D91F31E034BC4051DFB6678383679EDE|quote=Dr. Lise Meitner, the Austrian born nuclear physicist who first calculated the enormous energy released by splitting the uranium atom, died today in a Cambridge nursing home. She was 89 years old. |publisher=The New York Times|date= 28 October 1968 |accessdate=2008-04-18 |subst=subst:[/DoubleBrace]</ref> 
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<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#w_biography"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Biography</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#w_references"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#w_see-also"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">See Also</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#w_external-links"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">External links</span></a></li>
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</div><h2 id="w_biography">Biography</h2>
<p>Lise Meitner was part of the team that discovered nuclear fission, an achievement for which her colleague Otto Hahn was awarded the [Pagelink infos="Nobel Prize|Nobel Prize"]. Meitner is often mentioned as one of the most glaring examples of scientific achievement overlooked by the Nobel committee.<ref name="nytimesnobel">[DoubleBrace]cite news | title = No Nobel Prize for Whining | quote=Lise Meitner, the physicist first to recognize that experiments reported by two former colleagues in Berlin meant that atoms had been split, never got a prize, even though one of those colleagues, Otto Hahn, did in 1944. | author = Judson, Horace | url = http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=9C02E4DE123EF933A15753C1A9659C8B63 | publisher = <i>New York Times</i> | accessdate = 2007-08-03 [/DoubleBrace]</ref><ref name="heritage">[DoubleBrace]cite web | title = Otto Hahn, Lise Meitner and Fritz Strassmann | url = http://www.chemheritage.org/classroom/chemach/atomic/hahn-meitner.html | publisher = <i>Chemistry Heritage</i> | accessdate = 2007-08-03 [/DoubleBrace]</ref><ref name="wapost">[DoubleBrace]cite web | title = The Woman Behind the Bomb | url = http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/books/reviews/lisemeitner.htm | publisher = <i>Washington Post</i> | accessdate = 2007-08-03 [/DoubleBrace]</ref> A 1997 <i>Physics Today</i> 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.<ref name="physicstoday">[DoubleBrace]cite news | title =Revelations Concerning Lisa Meitner And The Nobel Prize. | url = http://scienceweek.com/2004/rmps-32.htm | publisher = <i>Science Week</i> | accessdate = 2007-08-03 [/DoubleBrace]</ref> 
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<h2 id="w_references">References</h2>
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<h2 id="w_see-also">See Also</h2>
<ul><li>[Pagelink infos="Female Nobel Prize Laureates|Female Nobel Prize Laureates"]
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<h2 id="w_external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li>"Lise Meitner" in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lise_Meitner" alt="Wikipedia">Wikipedia</a> 
</li><li>"Lise Meitner" in <a href="http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Meitner,_Lise@844904033.html" alt="CWP at UCLA">CWP at UCLA</a> 
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