Lise Meitner

In 1907 Planck invited Lise Meitner to Berlin for post-doctoral study and research — a move that was to change her career and life path.

Lise Meitner. 2009

Lise Meitner and Albert Einstein were among the few scientists who did not work on weapons research during World War II.

Lise Meitner. 2009

Unknown to Lise Meitner, her escape route from Berlin was orchestrated by the international physics community and Danish physicist Niels Bohr.

Lise Meitner. 2009

Lise Meitner was the second woman to receive a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Vienna and it was there that she was introduced to Max Planck, father of the quantum theory, who traveled to Vienna after the tragic suicide of Boltzmann.

Lise Meitner. 2009

Eleanor Roosevelt aptly stated in an NBC Radio interview with Lise Meitner immediately after Hiroshima in August 1945, that “we are proud of your contributions as a woman in science.”

Lise Meitner. 2009

Among the notable pioneering students around the turn of the century who were natives of Germany or Austria were Rahel Goitein Straus at the University of Heidelberg and Irma Klausner (- Cronheim) at Halle, both in medicine; Elsa Neumann at the University of Berlin and Lise Meitner at the University of Vienna in physics; and Clara Immerwahr in chemistry at the University of Breslau.

Higher Education in Central Europe. 2009

Nr. 757, 130 – 153; Archive SPSL, Oxford: file 333/12; Cambridge, Churchill College Archive, Lise Meitner papers (correspondence Meitner-Levi); List of Displaced German Scholars.

Hilde Levi. 2009

Hahn's discovery of fission was made in collaboration with Lise Meitner and Fritz Strassmann.

Hahn, Otto 2009

In 1947 she published a short biographical sketch of the woman physicist Lise Meitner, whom she met personally in Sweden and to whom she had been known since her Berlin years.

Hilde Levi. 2009

For a complete bibliography of works by Lise Meitner see Rife, Patricia.

Lise Meitner. 2009