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    Title

  • Lise Meitner : reading a manuscript

  • Physical Description

    1 photograph : black-and-white. ; 15.5 x 21 cm

  • Date

    undated

  • Place of Publication

    [Berlin]

  • Depicted

    Meitner, Lise, 1878-1968

  • Subject

    Portraits, Women; Physicists

  • Genre

    Photographs

  • Part Of

    Lise Meitner Collection, AR 2729

  • Accession Number

  • URL

Biographical/Historical Information

The prominent physicist Lise Meitner (1878 – 1968) was born, raised, and educated in Vienna, where she was the second woman to receive a doctorate from the University of Vienna. After graduating, she moved to Berlin, where she met Max Planck and Otto Hahn, with whom she had a long-standing professional partnership. In 1933, serving as director of chemistry at the Kaiser-Wilhelm Institute in Berlin, she escaped Nazi-Germany via the Netherlands to Sweden. During the 1930s she and Otto Hahn met secretly in Denmark, continuing their work, and laying the groundwork for human-controlled atomic fission. Lise Meitner died in Cambridge, England.

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Citation

Lise Meitner : reading a manuscript, Leo Baeck Institute, F 2742.