Lise Meitner
Physicist
Born: 1878
Died: 1968 |
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Part of the team that discovered nuclear fission, an achievement for which her colleague Otto Hahn was awarded the Nobel Prize. |
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The second woman to obtain a doctoral degree at the University of Vienna in 1905. In 1926 she became the first woman physics professor in Germany. |
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In 1923, Meitner discovered the radiationless transition known as the Auger effect, which is named for Pierre Victor Auger, a French scientist who discovered the effect two years later. |
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