Lise Meitner date of birth:
January 17, 1878
How old was Lise Meitner when died?
90
Where was Lise Meitner born?
Vienna, Austria
When did Lise Meitner die?
October 27, 1968
Where did Lise Meitner die?
Cambridge, United Kingdom
Lise Meitner body shape:
Average
What color are Lise Meitner's eyes?
Hazel
What color is Lise Meitner's hair?
Salt and Pepper
What religion is Lise Meitner?
Lutheran
What is Lise Meitner's ethnicity?
White
What is Lise Meitner nationality?
Austrian
What is Lise Meitner's occupation?
Physicist
Lise Meitner claim to fame:
Mother Of Nuclear Power
Short Biography
Lise Meitner (7 November 1878 – 27 October 1968) was an Austrian physicist who worked on radioactivity and nuclear physics. Otto Hahn and Meitner 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. Meitner and Otto Frisch understood that the fission process, which splits the atomic nucleus of uranium into two smaller nuclei, must be accompanied by an enormous release of energy. This process is the basis of the nuclear weapons that were developed in the U.S. during World War II and used against Japan in 1945. Nuclear fission is also the process exploited by nuclear reactors to generate electricity.