Was Lise Meitner a Jew?

The dramatic splitting of the atom—“nuclear fission”—was a discovery which changed our world. Yet few know that it was a woman physicist who discovered the power of nuclear energy just after her dramatic escape from Nazi Germany. read more

So you gotta feel for Jewish, Austrian-born, scientist Lise Meitner. Together with Otto Hahn, she discovered nuclear fission. Hahn, famous for cooperating with Nazis, got the Nobel; Meitner, who fled Germany in the late 30s, didn't. read more

Lise Meitner was the second woman to receive a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Vienna and it was there that she was introduced to Max Planck, father of the quantum theory, who traveled to Vienna after the tragic suicide of Boltzmann. read more

Lise Meitner (/ ˈ l iː z ə ˈ m aɪ t n ər /; 7 November 1878 – 27 October 1968) was an Austrian-Swedish physicist who worked on radioactivity and nuclear physics. Meitner and Otto Hahn led the small group of scientists who first discovered nuclear fission of uranium when it absorbed an extra neutron; the results were published in early 1939. read more