Meitner

American  

[mahyt-ner] / ˈmaɪt nər /

noun

1. Lise 1878–1968, Austrian nuclear physicist.

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Meitner British  

/ ˈmaitnər /

noun

1. Lise (ˈliːzə). 1878–1968, Austrian nuclear physicist. With Hahn, she discovered protactinium (1918), and they demonstrated with F. Strassmann the fission of uranium

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Meitner Scientific  

/ mīt′nər /

1. Austrian-born Swedish physicist who contributed to the first theories of nuclear fission. Her contributions to the field of nuclear physics led to the development of the atomic bomb and nuclear energy.

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Meitner

Lise Meitner, the Austrian-born physicist, was a longtime collaborator of Otto Hahn, who won the Nobel Prize in 1946.

From New York Times ● Oct. 2, 2023

We continue the story of Jewish physicist Lise Meitner, the first person to understand that the atom had been split.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 14, 2023

In 1947, Hahn also invited Meitner to return to Berlin, offering her a position as the head of physics at the old KWI, now called the Max Planck Institute.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 14, 2023

Meitner, who had fled Germany because of the Nazis, was horrified at the thought of an atomic bomb.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 14, 2023

Hahn wrote to Meitner at her new office in Sweden, describing the strange results of his experiment.

From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin