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Lise Meitner

1878 - 1968

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Lise Meitner ( LEE-zə MYTE-nər, German: [ˈliːzə ˈmaɪtnɐ] ; born Elise Meitner, 7 November 1878 – 27 October 1968) was an Austrian-Swedish nuclear physicist who was instrumental in the discoveries of nuclear fission and protactinium. Completing her doctoral research in 1905, Meitner became the second woman from the University of Vienna to earn a doctorate in physics. She spent much of her scientific career in Berlin, where she was a physics professor and a department head at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lise Meitner has received more than 1,917,658 page views. Her biography is available in 80 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 77 in 2019). Lise Meitner is the 40th most popular physicist (down from 38th in 2019), the 44th most popular biography from Austria (up from 46th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Austrian Physicist.

Lise Meitner is most famous for her work in nuclear physics. She was the first person to realize that Otto Hahn's experiments with uranium were producing nuclear fission.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Lise Meitner ranks 40 out of 851. Before her are Andrei Sakharov, Paul Dirac, Richard Feynman, Henry Cavendish, Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, and Wolfgang Pauli. After her are Gerard 't Hooft, Max von Laue, Pieter Zeeman, J. J. Thomson, Philipp Lenard, and William Gilbert.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, Lise Meitner ranks 1. After her are Janusz Korczak, Reza Shah, John B. Watson, Martin Buber, Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia, Pancho Villa, Werner von Blomberg, Gustav Stresemann, André Citroën, Pyotr Wrangel, and Lucien Febvre. Among people deceased in 1968, Lise Meitner ranks 5. Before her are Yuri Gagarin, Helen Keller, Marcel Duchamp, and Martin Luther King Jr.. After her are Otto Hahn, Padre Pio, John Steinbeck, Lev Landau, Konstantin Rokossovsky, Robert F. Kennedy, and Trygve Lie.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Lise Meitner ranks 44 out of 1,424. Before her are Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor (1557), Viktor Frankl (1905), Maximilian I of Mexico (1832), Alois Hitler (1837), Wolfgang Pauli (1900), and Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor (1608). After her are Arnold Schoenberg (1874), Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor (1415), Christian Doppler (1803), Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor (1678), Hedy Lamarr (1914), and Otto von Habsburg (1912).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Austria

Among physicists born in Austria, Lise Meitner ranks 3. Before her are Erwin Schrödinger (1887), and Wolfgang Pauli (1900). After her are Christian Doppler (1803), Ludwig Boltzmann (1844), Victor Francis Hess (1883), Anton Zeilinger (1945), Otto Robert Frisch (1904), Victor Weisskopf (1908), Walter Kohn (1923), Fritjof Capra (1939), and Marietta Blau (1894).

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