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    Lise Meitner (/ˈliːzə ˈmaɪtnər/ LEE-zə MYTE-nər, German: [ˈliːzə ˈmaɪtnɐ] ; born Elise Meitner, 7 November 1878 – 27 October 1968) was an Austrian physicist...
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  • The Lise Meitner Lectures (LML) are a series of public lectures in honour of Lise Meitner. The lectures are organized jointly by the German Physical Society...
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    The Lise-Meitner-Gymnasium (LMG) is a high school in Osdorf, Hamburg. It bore the name Gymnasium Osdorf until 1 January 2007, when it officially adopted...
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  • The Lise Meitner Prize for nuclear physics, established in 2000, is awarded every two years by the European Physical Society for outstanding work in the...
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  • Meitner is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Erika Meitner (born 1975), American poet Lise Meitner (1878–1968), Austrian-Swedish nuclear...
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    December 1938 by chemists Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann and physicists Lise Meitner and Otto Robert Frisch. Fission is a nuclear reaction or radioactive...
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    Lise Meitner Distinguished Lecture and Medal is a colloquium-style distinguished lecture that takes place at AlbaNova University Center in Stockholm on...
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    father of nuclear chemistry and father of nuclear fission. Hahn and Lise Meitner discovered radioactive isotopes of radium, thorium, protactinium and...
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    Estermann he first measured the magnetic moment of the proton. With Lise Meitner he advanced the first theoretical explanation of nuclear fission (coining...
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    interned in Germany for the duration of the war, 1914–1918. In Berlin, Lise Meitner's and Otto Hahn's research work on determining the radioactive decay chains...
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    letter to his colleague and friend Lise Meitner, who had fled Germany in July to the Netherlands and then to Sweden. Meitner and her nephew Otto Robert Frisch...
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    poet Dan Andersson, for her friendship and support of the physicist Lise Meitner, and as a Catholic writer. Eva von Bahr's parents were häradshövding...
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    physicists Lise Meitner and Otto Robert Frisch. Hahn and Strassmann proved that a fission reaction had taken place on 19 December 1938, and Meitner and her...
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    of nuclear fission, as was subsequently recognized and published by Lise Meitner and Otto Frisch. In their second publication on nuclear fission in February...
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  • chemical element; it has symbol Mt and atomic number 109. It is named after Lise Meitner and is an extremely radioactive synthetic element (an element not found...
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    backbone. The Auger emission process was observed and published in 1922 by Lise Meitner, an Austrian-Swedish physicist, as a side effect in her competitive search...
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  • won). Meitner studied at the Vienna Polytechnic, and William Steinitz was a fellow student. Philipp Meitner was the father of Dr. Lise Meitner. List of...
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    BER II nuclear research reactor at the Lise Meitner campus in Wannsee. Following the renaming of Hahn-Meitner-Institut Berlin GmbH to Helmholtz-Zentrum...
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    Strassmann in December 1938 and explained theoretically in January 1939 by Lise Meitner and her nephew Otto Robert Frisch. In their second publication on nuclear...
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    Chandra Mahalabobis (1945), Dorothy Hodgkin (1947), Alan Turing (1951), Lise Meitner (1955), Satyendra Nath Bose (1958), and Francis Crick (1959). More recently...
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    Mathematical Society. His students included Karl Přibram, Paul Ehrenfest and Lise Meitner. In Vienna, Boltzmann taught physics and also lectured on philosophy...
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    Order of St. Mesrop Mashtots (Armenia, 2019) Kurchatov Medal (1989) Lise Meitner Prize of the European Physical Society (2000) Lomonosov Gold Medal (2018)...
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  • television and film writer Lise Meitner (1878–1968), Austrian-Swedish physicist Lise Myhre (born 1975), Norwegian cartoonist Lise Salvas-Bronsard (1940–1995)...
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    nominated to the Nobel Prize in Physics but did not receive it, include: Lise Meitner, nominated 19 times; Chien-Shiung Wu, nominated 5 times; Marietta Blau...
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    bombarded uranium with neutrons, but misinterpreted their findings. Lise Meitner and Otto Frisch would theoretically correct Hahn and Strassmann's findings...
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    properties were discovered in 1896 by Henri Becquerel. Research by Otto Hahn, Lise Meitner, Enrico Fermi and others, such as J. Robert Oppenheimer starting in 1934...
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    stable isotope of protactinium, 231Pa, was discovered in 1917/18 by Lise Meitner in collaboration with Otto Hahn, and they named the element protactinium...
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    lectures on theoretical physics, "dry, somewhat impersonal" according to Lise Meitner, "using no notes, never making mistakes, never faltering; the best lecturer...
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  • understanding of the physical world and the place of humanity within it. The Lise Meitner Medal and Prize, established in 2016, is awarded for "distinguished contributions...
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    control principles. Barabási was the recipient of the 2024 Gothenburg Lise Meitner Award.Barabási was the recipient of the 2023 Julius Edgar Lilienfeld...
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