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.

Lise Meitner identified the process of fission when her male colleagues couldn't figure it out. Her closest colleague, Otto Hahn, downplayed the significant role she played in the discovery.

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

Meitner’s work precipitated the Manhattan Project and the making of the atomic bomb. She flatly refused to work on the Project, : “I will have nothing to do with a bomb,” she is quoted as saying. Her ...

Lise Meitner, an Austrian-Swedish physicist, was a trailblazer in nuclear physics and co-discovered nuclear fission, the process that powers both nuclear reactors and weapons. Despite her critical ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...