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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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

It was Meitner, along with her nephew, Otto Frisch, who proposed the term “fission” to describe what they had found, but Hahn won the prize.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 24, 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

Although Meitner did finally escape Berlin, she left behind the work that had defined her life for nearly three decades: her work with chemist Otto Hahn.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 14, 2023

He turned to his former partner, Lise Meitner, a Jewish physicist who’d been forced out of Germany by Hitler.

From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin