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Lise Meitner

1878 - 1968

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Elise "Lise" Meitner ( MYTE-ner; German: [ˈliːzə ˈmaɪtnɐ] ; 7 November 1878 – 27 October 1968) was an Austrian-Swedish nuclear physicist who was instrumental in the discovery of nuclear fission. After completing her doctoral research in 1906, Meitner became the second woman from the University of Vienna to earn a doctorate in physics. She spent much of her scientific career in Berlin, where she was a physics professor and a department head at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry. She was the first woman to become a full professor of physics in Germany. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Lise Meitner is the 39th most popular physicist (up from 40th in 2019), the 30th most popular biography from Austria (up from 44th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Austrian Physicist.

Lise Meitner is most famous for her work in nuclear physics. She was the first person to realize that Otto Hahn's experiments with uranium were producing nuclear fission.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Lise Meitner ranks 39 out of 851. Before her are Lawrence Bragg, Christiaan Huygens, James Clerk Maxwell, Louis de Broglie, Hendrik Lorentz, and Daniel Bernoulli. After her are Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, Charles H. Townes, Pieter Zeeman, William Gilbert, Luigi Galvani, and Nevill Francis Mott.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, Lise Meitner ranks 1. After her are Janusz Korczak, Martin Buber, John B. Watson, Reza Shah, Gustav Stresemann, Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia, Werner von Blomberg, Manuel L. Quezon, Pancho Villa, André Citroën, and Alfred Döblin. Among people deceased in 1968, Lise Meitner ranks 4. Before her are Martin Luther King Jr., Yuri Gagarin, and Helen Keller. After her are Padre Pio, Marcel Duchamp, John Steinbeck, Otto Hahn, Lev Landau, Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark, Max Brod, and Henry Hallett Dale.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Lise Meitner ranks 30 out of 1,424. Before her are Ferdinand I of Austria (1793), Klara Hitler (1860), Niki Lauda (1949), Alfred Adler (1870), Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor (1685), and Theodoric the Great (454). After her are Romy Schneider (1938), Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor (1552), Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (1747), Johann Strauss I (1804), Anton Bruckner (1824), and Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (1578).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Austria

Among physicists born in Austria, Lise Meitner ranks 2. Before her are Erwin Schrödinger (1887). After her are Wolfgang Pauli (1900), Ludwig Boltzmann (1844), Christian Doppler (1803), Victor Francis Hess (1883), Victor Weisskopf (1908), Anton Zeilinger (1945), Walter Kohn (1923), Otto Robert Frisch (1904), Fritjof Capra (1939), and Berta Karlik (1904).

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