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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-Swedish...
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  • Meitner may refer to the following: Meitner (surname), for people with that name 6999 Meitner, main-belt asteroid Meitner (Venusian crater), a multiring...
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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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  • Philipp Meitner (24 August 1839, Vienna – 9 December 1910, Vienna) was an Austrian lawyer and chess master. His most famous game was the "Immortal Draw"...
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    The Auger effect (/oʊˈʒeɪ/; French pronunciation: [ˈ/o.ʒe/]) or Auger−Meitner effect is a physical phenomenon in which atoms eject electrons. It occurs...
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    the science behind nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons. Hahn and Lise Meitner discovered isotopes of the radioactive elements radium, thorium, protactinium...
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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 decay...
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    Meitner is a multiring impact crater on Venus. This crater was named in 1979 after the female Austrian-Swedish physicist, Lise Meitner, in her honour....
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  • The Meitner–Hupfeld effect, named after Lise Meitner and Hans-Hermann Hupfeld, is an anomalously large scattering of gamma rays by heavy elements. The...
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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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  • Theme Meitner (born 13 February 1994) is a German film actor. Meitner first came into contact with the acting profession when his parents applied to him...
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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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  • Herbert Meitner (Hebrew: הרברט מייטנר; born 1913) was an Israeli footballer who played as a forward for Hapoel Tel Aviv and Hapoel Rishon at club level...
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  • Lotte Meitner-Graf (1899–1973, born as Charlotte Graf), was a noted Austrian black-and-white portrait photographer. She was married to physicist Lise...
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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 nephew...
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    Meitner is an impact crater on the far side of the Moon, behind the eastern limb. It lies to the northwest of the crater Kondratyuk, and about a crater...
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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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • Bohr, Danish physicist Neo-Latin Hassia 'Hesse', a state in Germany Lise Meitner, Austrian physicist Darmstadt, Germany, where it was first synthesized...
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    scientists in the 19th century. In the 20th century, contributions by Lise Meitner, Erwin Schrödinger, and Wolfgang Pauli to nuclear research and quantum...
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  • queen alternatively to f2 and h4. Hamppe vs. Meitner, 1872 In a classic game Carl Hamppe–Philipp Meitner, Vienna 1872, following a series of sacrifices...
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    Erika Meitner (born 1975 in New York) is an American poet. She graduated from Dartmouth College with an A.B. in 1996, and from the University of Virginia...
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    Chandra Mahalanobis (1945), Dorothy Hodgkin (1947), Alan Turing (1951), Lise Meitner (1955), Satyendra Nath Bose (1958), and Francis Crick (1959). More recently...
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    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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    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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    by Otto Hahn in December 1938 (and its theoretical explanation by Lise Meitner) generated intense interest among physicists. Bohr brought the news to...
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