Labels:book | bulletin board | great grandchild | person | tie OCR: LISE MEITNER (1878 1968) HE AUSTRIAN nuclear physicist Lise Meitner remembered for her discovery the radioactive element protactini ium She studied radioactivity with experts atom theory and produced important work, despite having to overcome both racial (she was Jewish and sexual discrimination. In 1938 she fled Nazi Germany and went to neutral Sweden. This gave her the chance to work on her theory of nuclear fission (as she named it), using data from German scientists that described how they had actually split an atom Meitner distanced herself from the first use of the theory the production of an atomic bomb. LFE ALSO STORY protactinium atomi
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