death_date ethnicity fields birth_date signature residence academic_advisors alma_mater death_place influenced footnotes doctoral_students image citizenship caption birth_place awards known_for doctoral_advisor religion workplaces notable_students article_title
27 october 1968 jewish physics 7 november 1878 lise meitner signature.svg austria , germany , sweden united kingdom ludwig boltzmann max planck university of vienna cambridge , england otto hahn she her father was philipp meitner . was the aunt of otto robert frisch . arnold flammersfeld kan-chang wang nikolaus riehl lise university , washington , d.c. , 1946.jpg meitner -lrb- 1878-1968 -rrb- , lecturing at catholic austria -lrb- pre-1949 -rrb- , sweden -lrb- post-1949 -rrb- lise meitner in 1946 vienna , austria-hungary lieben 1949 -rrb- otto hahn prize -lrb- 1955 -rrb- formemrs -lrb- prize 1955 -rrb- wilhelm exner medal -lrb- 1960 -rrb- enrico fermi -lrb- award -lrb- 1966 -rrb- 1925 -rrb- max planck medal -lrb- nuclear fission franz s. exner judaism -lrb- pre-1908 -rrb- lutheran -lrb- post-1908 -rrb- kaiser wilhelm institute university of berlin max delbrück hans hellmann lise meitner

lise meitner

lise meitner -lrb- 7 november 1878 -- 27 october 1968 -rrb- was an austrian physicist who worked on radioactivity and nuclear physics .
meitner was part of the hahn-meitner-strassmann-team that worked on `` transuranium-elements '' from 1935 onward , which led to the radiochemical discovery of the nuclear fission of uranium and thorium in december 1938 , an achievement for which her colleague otto hahn was awarded the nobel prize for chemistry in 1944 .
meitner is often mentioned as one of the most glaring examples of women 's scientific achievement overlooked by the nobel committee .
a 1997 `` physics today '' study concluded that meitner 's omission was `` a rare instance in which personal negative opinions apparently led to the exclusion of a deserving scientist '' from the nobel .
element 109 , meitnerium , is named in her honour .
