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    November 1964) was a physicist who was one of only three women (along Lise Meitner and Hertha Sponer) to obtain habilitation (the qualification for university...
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    Martin Buber Ernst Bloch Max Horkheimer Ernst Cassirer Herbert Marcuse Lise Meitner Louis Hamilton, 1879-1948 (not Louis Kemppel Hamilton, 1890–1957) The...
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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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  •   Alster park   Elbe park   Wallanlagen park Photo impressions of Hamburg parks: Hirschpark Alsterpark Stadtpark Volkspark Eimsbüttel Park List of public...
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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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    educational needs, but further needs must be sought either in Neuenhaus (Lise-Meitner-Gymnasium) or in the district seat of Nordhorn. In Nordhorn learners...
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    discovered that barium had been produced. Hahn wrote to his colleague Lise Meitner, who, with her nephew Otto Frisch, explained that the uranium nucleus...
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    Dee, Paul Dirac, Ferretti, O. Frisch, Oskar Klein, Leprince-Ringuet, Lise Meitner, Christian Møller, Francis Perrin, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Wolfgang Pauli...
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  • Discovery of nuclear fission is announced independently by Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner. On January 26, Niels Bohr reports the splitting of the uranium nucleus...
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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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    Strassmann. Hahn understood that a "burst" of the atomic nuclei had occurred. Lise Meitner and Otto Frisch gave a full theoretical interpretation and named the...
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  • In 2003 she moved to Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) as a Lise Meitner Fellow. After two years in Vienna, Smirnova joined the theoretical group...
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    fission 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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    latimeria chalumnae in her honour. 1939: Austrian-Swedish physicist Lise Meitner, along with Otto Hahn, led the small group of scientists who first discovered...
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    with neutrons; simultaneously, they communicated these results to Lise Meitner. Meitner, and her nephew Otto Robert Frisch, correctly interpreted these...
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    and its theoretical explanation (and naming) by their collaborators Lise Meitner and Otto Frisch, opened up the possibility of creating a nuclear chain...
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  • John F. Kennedy on the campaign trail, September 1960; and physicist Lise Meitner with others at a reunion for Nobel Prize-winners held at a resort on...
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    uranium in the January 6, 1939, issue of Die Naturwissenschaften, and Lise Meitner identified it as nuclear fission in the February 11, 1939 issue of Nature...
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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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    Strassmann in 1938, and its theoretical explanation (and naming) by Lise Meitner and Otto Frisch soon after, opened up the possibility of a controlled...
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    Langer, psychoanalyst Emil Mayer, (1871–1938), photographer and inventor Lise Meitner, scientist Robert Menasse (1954–), writer Johann Nestroy Richard Neutra...
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    physics and quantum physics led to proofs of nuclear fission in 1939 by Lise Meitner (based on experiments by Otto Hahn), and nuclear fusion by Hans Bethe...
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    what Chadwick had in mind. However, polonium is an alpha emitter, and Lise Meitner sent Chadwick about 2 millicuries (about 0.5 μg) from Germany. In Germany...
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    Vienna (section Parks)
    Popper, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Paul Feyerabend, Moritz Schlick Physics: Lise Meitner, Erwin Schrödinger, Wolfgang Pauli, Ludwig Boltzmann, Victor Franz Hess...
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    the uranium atomic nucleus had been split. Hahn wrote to his colleague Lise Meitner, who, with her nephew Otto Robert Frisch, developed a theoretical justification...
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    Birmingham. During the Christmas holiday in 1938, Frisch visited his aunt Lise Meitner in Kungälv in Sweden, where she had relocated after Germany's annexation...
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    with neutrons; simultaneously, they communicated these results to Lise Meitner. Meitner, and her nephew Otto Robert Frisch, correctly interpreted these...
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    International Union of Radio Science (URSI) in Istanbul (19 August 2011) Lise-Meitner-Lecture at the Technical University Vienna (2013) The Royal Medal of...
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    detected the element barium after bombarding uranium with neutrons, which Lise Meitner and her nephew Otto Frisch correctly interpreted as the result of nuclear...
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  • Dallgow-Döberitz Marie-Curie-Gymnasium (external link) Falkensee Lise-Meitner-Gymnasium Lenzen Gijsels van Lier Grundschule (external link) Luckau...
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