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2007-01-15 15:32:22 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics Mathematics

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lise_Meitner
http://www.physics.ucla.edu/~cwp/Phase2/Meitner,_Lise@844904033.html

Check these references for starters.
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Some Important Contributions
Discovered the process of nuclear disintegration called nuclear fission, with O. Hahn and F. Strassmann.


Named the process fission and gave its physical explanation, with O. R. Frisch.


Discovered element 91, protactinium, with O. Hahn.


Confirmed, with W. Orthmann, Chadwick and Ellis' observations of the continuous energy spectrum in nuclear beta decay which led Wolfgang Pauli to propose the existence of the neutrino. Recent developments.


Measured absorption of short wave length gamma rays and found agreement with theKlein-Nishina formula, witn H. H. Hupfield.


Described the process now known as internal conversion (decay electron directly ejecting a K electron) and discovered the radiationless transition now known as the Auger effect in 1923; see below where the paper describing this discovery is referenced. Auger independently discovered the effect in 1925.

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2007-01-15 15:37:26 · answer #1 · answered by Joni DaNerd 6 · 0 0

Lise Meitner was a physicist... She did work on radioactive decay and was cheated out of a Nobel Prize. However, she does have an element named after her.

2007-01-15 15:36:01 · answer #2 · answered by John T 6 · 0 0

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