Lise Meitner, a woman scientist
By Charlotte Mettetal, publié le 10/20/2025 à 8:15 a.m
Who is Lise Meitner ?
Lise Meitner, was born in 1878 in Vienne and died in United-Kingdom, is an Austrian physicist who worked on radioactivity and nuclear physics. She got his doctorate in 1906, under the direction of German physicist Franz-Serafin Exner.
Lise Meitner
In 1907, she left Vienne to Berlin. In this city, she met Otto Hahn, with whom she begins a collaboration and friendship witch during 30 years. In 1938, Meitner supervises, before to run away to Germany, construction of the particle accelerator.
Otto Hahn
Particle accelerator
Of Jewish origin, she forced to leave Germany and seek refuge in Sweden. In Sweden, she continues her work on nuclear fission. Lise writes to Otto Hahn about nuclear fission. It's his friend who rewarded, and not Lise Meitner, by Nobel Price of chemistry in 1944 for his work on nuclear fission.
"Of Jewish origin, she is forced to leave Germany."
A rejected project
Lise Meitner decline to participate in Manhattan Project, saying she wanted nothing to do with a bomb. This project created the atomic bomb dumped on Hiroshima and Nagazaki in 1945.
"I don't want anything to do with a bomb !"
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