Meitner

[mahyt-ner]

noun

1. Lise 1878–1968, Austrian nuclear physicist.

Meitner

/ 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

Meitner

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.

Example Sentences

And then there is Lise Meitner, the co-discoverer, with Otto Hahn, of nuclear fission.

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Meitner's colleague Niels Bohr, presented her work at the 1939 Fifth Washington Conference on Theoretical Physics in D.C.

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Meitner is looking at what's there and trying to explain what is this, and that's how she comes up with this discovery.

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Starting next week, we're bringing you a two-parter, a fresh look at the physicist Lise Meitner through her correspondence with Otto Hahn.

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About three decades later in 1938, Lise Meitner — along with her colleague, Otto Hahn, and her nephew, Otto Frisch — discovered nuclear fission, which would later be used by J. Robert Oppenheimer.

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