Lise Meitner

early life

• born November 7, 1878, in Vienna Austria
• the third of eight children
• Jewish family
• entered University of Vienna in 1901 at age 23

studies & discoveries

• studied physics under Ludwig Boltzmann
• received doctorate in 1906
• 1907 studied with Max Planck and Otto Hahn in Berlin
• 1918 discovered protactinium with Otto Hahn while studying radioactivity
• 1923 discovered the radiationless transition know as the Auger effect

later life

• 1938 fled Germany to Sweden
• continued work at Manne Siegbahn's institute in Stockholm
• experiments for nuclear fission evidence were published in 1939
• 1939 published physical explanation for nuclear fission with nephew Otto Frisch
• 1966 Hahn, Meitner, and Strassman were awarded the Enrico Fermi Award
• retired to Cambridge, England where she died October 27, 1968

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