Lise Meitner

Lise Meitner

<p><b>Lise Meitner</b> (7 or 17 November 1878 – 27 October 1968) was an "Gender -born, later "Gender physicist who studied radioactivity and nuclear physics.<ref name="nytobit"></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 "Nobel. Meitner is often mentioned as one of the most glaring examples of scientific achievement overlooked by the Nobel committee.<ref name="nytimesnobel"></ref><ref name="heritage"></ref><ref name="wapost"></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"></ref>
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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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