Women in science: a portrait of Lise Meitner. When the Kaiser Wilhelm Society convenes for its annual general meeting at Harnack House in the summer of 1931, guests can expect an innovation: one of ...

Lise Meitner, an Austrian-Swedish physicist, was a trailblazer in nuclear physics and co-discovered nuclear fission, the process that powers both nuclear reactors and weapons. Despite her critical ...

Lise Meitner identified the process of fission when her male colleagues couldn't figure it out. Her closest colleague, Otto Hahn, downplayed the significant role she played in the discovery.

Lise Meitner developed the theory of nuclear fission, the process that enabled the atomic bomb. But her identity — Jewish and a woman — barred her from sharing credit for the discovery, newly ...

Today I bring you the rather sad story of Lise Meitner (1878–1968), co-discoverer, with Otto Hahn (1879-1968) and Fritz Strassmann, of nuclear fission. Hahn won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in ...

Portrait of Prof. Dr. Lise Meitner, the Swedish noted woman scientist, who assisted in the development of the atomic bomb, pictured in West Berlin, West Germany, May 11, 1957.

Meitner’s work precipitated the Manhattan Project and the making of the atomic bomb. She flatly refused to work on the Project, : “I will have nothing to do with a bomb,” she is quoted as saying. Her ...

You might have heard of Lise Meitner. A native of Austria, she was the first woman to become a full professor of physics in Germany. She also helped discover nuclear fission. Yet the 1944 Nobel ...

The Lise Meitner Groups are furnished with their own resources for their entire duration. A position with prospects Every new researcher in the Lise Meitner Excellence Program receives the offer to ...

The IAEA Lise Meitner Library is located at the Agency’s Headquarters, Vienna International Centre (VIC) in the F-building, first floor. Access to the IAEA Lise Meitner Library is available to staff ...