The Lise Meitner Programme, named after the Austrian-Swedish physicist who co-discovered nuclear fission, is designed to ...

Argentina boasts a distinguished track record in the nuclear industry. The country gets more than 6% of its electricity from three nuclear power reactors, is building a locally designed small modular ...

The IAEA Lise Meitner Programme (LMP) provides early- and mid‑career women professionals with opportunities to participate in a multiweek visiting professional programme and advance their technical ...

In that letter, physicist Lise Meitner, with the assistance of her young nephew Otto Frisch, provided a physical explanation of how nuclear fission could happen. It was a massive leap forward in ...

For centuries, women in science have been sidelined, their groundbreaking work erased or credited to male peers — a ...

An important initiative is the Lise Meitner Excellence Program. The positon as a Lise Meitner Group Leader will be advertised to recruit and promote exceptionally qualified female scientists. There is ...

Quiz: Who am I? Activity: Research Four of the most influential women in science: Mary Anning, Marie Curie, Lise Meitner and Kathrine Johnson. Throughout history there have been many influential ...

An Austrian Jew and a woman, Meitner was constrained early in her career to working without pay in a basement room in Berlin. For many years, she collaborated closely with the chemist Otto Hahn ...

Without a valid passport and carrying only hand luggage, Lise Meitner managed to flee Germany on 13 July 1938. As a foreigner, the Viennese scientist of Jewish descent had not initially been affected ...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the only woman to have an atomic element named solely after her (Meitnerium), in recognition of her role in solving the question of nuclear fission.