Lise Meitner
(1878-1968)
Austrian-Swedish physicist
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Lise Meitner ( LEE-zə MYTE-nər, 7 November 1878 – 27 October 1968) was an Austrian-Swedish physicist who contributed to the discoveries of the element protactinium and nuclear fission. While working at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute on radioactivity, she discovered the radioactive isotope protactinium-231 in 1917. In 1938, Meitner and nephew-physicist Otto Robert Frisch discovered nuclear fission. She was praised by Albert Einstein as the "German Marie Curie".
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17 January 1878 Vienna, Austria
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27 October 1968 (aged 90) Cambridge, United Kingdom
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