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Lise Meitner

1878–1968

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Lise Meitner was an Austrian-Swedish physicist who made fundamental contributions to nuclear physics, most notably being one of the discoverers of nuclear fission. Despite her groundbreaking work, she was overlooked for the Nobel Prize in Physics awarded for this discovery.

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"The Discovery of Nuclear Fission" (1968, *Physics Today*)
"On the Disintegration of Uranium by Neutrons: Preliminary Communication" (with Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann, 1939, *Naturwissenschaften*)
"Radioactive Decay and Nuclear Reactions" (lecture, various)

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