Lise Meitner, the Austrian-born physicist, was a longtime collaborator of Otto Hahn, who won the Nobel Prize in 1944. She did not share in the award with him.

A letter from renowned physicist Albert Einstein outlining his own role in the development of the atomic bomb and his ...

Albert Einstein might be the daddy of all eggheads. But as his famous theory of special relativity turns 120, we tip our hats ...

The Lise Meitner Programme, an IAEA flagship initiative to accelerate career development for women in nuclear fields, reached new heights last week with a visit to Japan. Launched in 2023 by IAEA ...

The story of the birth and growth of nuclear science is rebalanced in Destroyer of Worlds, which gives due prominence to the ...

You might have heard of Lise Meitner. A native of Austria, she was the first woman to become a full professor of physics in Germany. She also helped discover nuclear fission. Yet the 1944 Nobel ...

The Lise Meitner Groups are furnished with their own resources for their entire duration. A position with prospects Every new researcher in the Lise Meitner Excellence Program receives the offer to ...

Today I bring you the rather sad story of Lise Meitner (1878–1968), co-discoverer, with Otto Hahn (1879-1968) and Fritz Strassmann, of nuclear fission. Hahn won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in ...

Lise Meitner. 7 November 1878 – 27 October 1968. An Austrian-Swedish physicist who co-discovered nuclear fission before fleeing the Nazis Look along the bottom row of a standard ...

Lise Meitner Programme Career development for more women in nuclear. The IAEA Lise Meitner Programme (LMP) provides early- and mid‑career women professionals with opportunities to participate in a ...

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 ...