Lise Meitner

Lise Meitner was conceived on November 7, 1878, in Vienna, Austria. She is the third of eight offspring of a Jewish family. She had entered the University of Vienna in 1901, learning under the wings of Ludwig Boltzmann. After she earned her doctorate degree in 1906, she went to Berlin in 1907 to train with Max Planck and the scientific expert Otto Hahn. She worked alongside Hahn for a long time. Lise became the first woman to be the head of the physics department in Berlin's Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry. Hahn and Meitner worked together intently, examining radioactivity, with her insight of physics and his insight in chemistry. In 1918, they had both discovered the science element, protactinium. In 1923, Meitner found the radiation less progress known as the Auger impact, which is named for Pierre Victor Auger, a French researcher who found out the results two years after the fact.…

Leona Woods Marshall who later came to be known as Leona Woods Marshall Libby was an American physicist. She was born on August 9, 1919 in La Grange, Illinois. Her studies culminated with the achievement of a doctoral degree in Molecular Spectroscopy from the University of Chicago after which she was recruited into the famous Enrico Fermi’s team to work on the Manhattan project. The Manhattan project was a research and development undertaking during the Second World War that produced the first…

A German Jewish mathematician, known for her contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics, Amalie Emmy Noether was described by many other famous mathematic theorists as the most important woman in the history of mathematics. An article on Applied Mathematics gives a brief insight into the importance of her work: Emmy Noether was one of the most brilliant and important mathematicians of the 20th century. She altered the course of modern physics. Einstein called her a genius. Yet…

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…

Lise Meitner might be the most important scientist you have never heard of. Many consider her to be the most important female scientist of the 20th century. This essay will look at meitner’s life and discoveries. Examine each of her major discoveries. All her discoveries helped boost mankind into the future. Lise Meitner was one of the few women scientists of her time. She studied physics and chemistry, and she did research and experiments. She discovered new information and things. She…

by German scientists Otto Hahn, Lise Meitner and Fritz Strassman. Lise Meitner was forced by the Nazi to leave Germany because her citizenship had been revoked and she moved to Sweden. During her the time in Sweden, Hahn and Fritz wrote to her about an experiment they had recently performed back in Nazi Germany. The experiment consisted of bombarding uranium with neutrons and the result showed that the element was not what they expected. The results showed the element of barium instead of…

institute extremely successful and of high-rank. Curie’s Institute advanced science and society in many brilliant ways. Some people may argue Lise Meitner is as important and influential as Marie Curie, however, Marie Curie has accomplished greater things. Meitner and Han studied radioactivity together and discovered the periodic table element protactinium in 1918 (“Lise Meitner”). Meitner was a successful scientist that discovered an element and accomplished many other things for the…

about. But why? People have not been very nice to women through science, in fact you could even say that they were being very sexist. Take for example Jocelyn Bell Burnell, she discovered those little pulsars from the stars in the universe that went supernova. This took her dedication, and most likely countless hours of lost sleep. But then she passed away just after she had about wrapped up her research. When it came time to give her recognition her name was nowhere to be found. She did all…

1907, Hahn discovered mesothorium, another radioactive isotope of thorium. Also in 1907, Hahn partnered with Lise Meitner, a nuclear physicist, who would come to work with him for thirty years and be involved with many of his later discoveries. Hahn and Meitner’s work continued until 1914 when Hahn left to serve in World War I. After he returned from the war in 1918, Meitner and Hahn once again worked together, this time discovering protactinium, a toxic member of the actinide series. During…

Bomb My book was on the race to build and steal the atomic bomb. The atomic bomb was being created in the U.S and they took some of the smartest people to try to help build it because they were trying to split atoms. It played probably the biggest role in world war 2 because if they had not gotten the 2 bombs made in time the Japanese could have ended up winning the war but instead they got it finished and they dropped them on japan. Maybe the person who played the biggest part in the building…