| Lise Meitner  Born: 7-Nov-1878
Birthplace: Vienna, Austria
Died: 27-Oct-1968
Location of death: Cambridge, England
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Female
Religion: Protestant
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Physicist Nationality: Austria
Executive summary: Discovered Nuclear Fission Fled Nazi Germany in 1938 for Sweden. Father: Philipp Meitner (lawyer, d. 1910)
Mother: Hedwig Skovran Meitner (b. 1850, d. 1924)
Sister: Gisela Meitner (b. 1876)
Brother: Auguste Meitner (b. 1877, d. 1951)
Brother: Fritz Meitner (b. 1880)
Sister: Carola Meitner (b. 1884, d. 1952)
Brother: Max Meitner (b. 1888, d. 1902)
Sister: Frida Meitner (b. 1889, 1967)
Brother: Walter Meitner (b. 1891, d. 1961)
University: PhD, University of Vienna (1906)
Royal Society
Max Planck Medal 1949
Enrico Fermi Award 1966
Converted to Protestantism 1908 (formerly Jewish)
Chemical Element Namesake meitnerium (Mt, 109)
Austrian Ancestry
Jewish Ancestry
Is the subject of books:
Lise Meitner: A Life in Physics, 1996, BY: Ruth Lewin Sime, DETAILS: University of California Press
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