Lise Meitner was born into a prosperous Jewish family in Vienna in 1878. Her father, a lawyer and chess master, took the unusual step of encouraging his daughter’s education.

Dr. Lise Meitner, the Austrian-born nuclear physicist whose pioneer work led to the splitting of the uranium atom, died in a Cambridge nursing home yesterday at the age of 89.

It was a massive leap forward in nuclear physics, but today Lise Meitner remains obscure and largely forgotten. She was excluded from the victory celebration because she was a Jewish woman.

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 ...

Meitner kept pondering Hahn's findings and, while discussing it with her nephew, physicist Otto Frisch, came to the idea that if an atomic nucleus is imagined as a liquid drop, perhaps energetic ...

The 2020 Nobel Prize for Physics will be announced on Tuesday 6 October. In the run-up to the announcement, Physics World editors have picked some of the people who they think have been overlooked for ...

Moss’s (America’s Tea Parties: Not One but Four!) accessible biography paints a searing portrait of Jewish physicist Lise Meitner’s (1878–1968) most famous and controversial achievement.

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Austrian-born physicist Lise Meitner (1878-1968) is shown here (at right) with actress Katherine Cornell and physicist Arthur H. Compton on June 6, 1946, when Meitner and Cornell were receiving awards ...

Released , 'Lise Meitner: The Mother of the Atom Bomb' stars Katherina Lange, Estella Hebert, Malte Tönissen, Marek Gierszał The movie has a runtime of about 52 min, and received a user score of ...

Lise Meitner was left off the publication that eventually led to a Nobel Prize for her colleague. Nuclear fission – the physical process by which very large atoms like uranium split into pairs ...