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A Short Biography of Lise Meitner

Author Name:

Lise Meitner

Born As:

Elise Meitner

Other Names:

Born:

07 Nov 1878

Died:

27 Oct 1968




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Physicist                          
                          
Mother Hedwig Meitner
Father Philipp Meitner                          
Second woman to obtain a doctoral degree in physics at the University of Vienna in 1905.

First woman in Germany to assume a post of full Professor in Physics, at the University of Berlin.

Element 109, Meitnerium, is named in her honor.

Lieben Prize - 1925
Max Planck Medal -1949
Enrico Fermi Award - 1966                          
The birth register of Vienna's Jewish community lists Meitner as being born on 17 November 1878, but all other documents list it as 7 November.
Converted to Christianity, being baptized in 1908.

Women were not allowed to attend institutions of higher education, she was able to obtain private higher education, which she completed in 1901 with an "externe Matura" examination at the Akademisches Gymnasium.

Lise Meitner worked without salary as a "guest" in Hahn's department of Radiochemistry for one year, and obtained a permanent post in 1913.