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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Example Sentences

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

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

From Scientific American • Sep. 14, 2023

Meitner, a physicist, was the first to realize what the results meant: the nucleus had split.

From Scientific American • Sep. 14, 2023

Meitner pulled out a scrap of paper and pencil, and Frisch sketched a diagram of a circle stretching into a long oval shape, and finally breaking in two.

From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin