Lise Meitner, a woman physicist who had worked and studied radioactivity and nuclear fission. Meitner’s way of working and studying led to the “radiochemical discovery” of nuclear fission. Her achievement was rewarded with a Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1944. Meitner is often used as an example of a scientific women who was “overlooked by the Nobel committee”. Lise Meitner demonstrates the arduous work she had to do in order to discover her accomplishment which in this case is the discoverment of nuclear fusion.
Lise Meitner is an austrian physicist who worked on radioactivity and nuclear physics. In the website Atomic Archive it states “Meitner was part of [the] Hahn-Meitner-Strassmann team that worked on transuranium elements...”. Meitner was a part of this team that had helped her with her succession of discovering nuclear fission. Meitner was the third child of eight in her Jewish Family. Later on she entered the University of Vienna in 1901 and studied physics under Ludwig Boltzmann. Leitner was not allowed to enter public school so she had no choice but to attend private school.
Lise Meitner was recognized by her discoverment of nuclear fission. In the Atomic Archive for Lise Meitner it illustrates “ The experiments that provided the evidence for nuclear fission were done at Hahn's laboratory in Berlin and published in January 1939. In February 1939, Meitner published the physical explanation for the observations and, with her nephew, physicist Otto Frisch, named the process nuclear fission.”. This is important because she did not accomplish her discovery by herself but her nephew Otto Frisch. Meitner spent most of her time …show more content…
Weintraub, Chemistry in Israel, no. 21, May 2006, p.
Lise Meitner is an austrian physicist who worked on radioactivity and nuclear physics. In the website Atomic Archive it states “Meitner was part of [the] Hahn-Meitner-Strassmann team that worked on transuranium elements...”. Meitner was a part of this team that had helped her with her succession of discovering nuclear fission. Meitner was the third child of eight in her Jewish Family. Later on she entered the University of Vienna in 1901 and studied physics under Ludwig Boltzmann. Leitner was not allowed to enter public school so she had no choice but to attend private school.
Lise Meitner was recognized by her discoverment of nuclear fission. In the Atomic Archive for Lise Meitner it illustrates “ The experiments that provided the evidence for nuclear fission were done at Hahn's laboratory in Berlin and published in January 1939. In February 1939, Meitner published the physical explanation for the observations and, with her nephew, physicist Otto Frisch, named the process nuclear fission.”. This is important because she did not accomplish her discovery by herself but her nephew Otto Frisch. Meitner spent most of her time …show more content…
Weintraub, Chemistry in Israel, no. 21, May 2006, p.