2006-10-08 07:27:57 · 5 answers · asked by Not_many_people_know_this_but 3 in Social Science ➔ Gender Studies
Lise Meitner, University of Berlin. Physics.
Lise Meitner (November 7, 1878 – October 27, 1968) was an Austrian physicist who studied radioactivity and nuclear physics.
As with many early female scientists, her parents were opposed to her entering university. She persisted and entered the University of Vienna in 1901, studying physics under Ludwig Boltzmann. In 1905, she obtained her PhD in physics, the first woman to do so at that university. After she obtained her doctorate degree, she went to the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin in 1907 to study with Max Planck and work with the chemist Otto Hahn.
She collaborated with Hahn for 30 years, each of them leading a section in Berlin's Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry.
Meitner and Hahn worked on splitting the atom. He got a Nobel Prize for the work, She did not.
Born Jewish, she got hassled when Hitler came to power and went into exile, She was invited to join the other scientists working on the Manhattan Project in the USA, She refused point blank to even consider making an atomic bomb.
Meitner died in Cambridge, England in 1968. The transuranic element 109 is named Meitnerium after her.
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