TY - BOOK ID - 6802928 TI - Lise Meitner: a life in physics PY - 1996 VL - 13 SN - 0520208609 9780520208605 PB - Berkeley (Calif.): University of California press, DB - UniCat KW - Women physicists KW - Physicists KW - Women in physics KW - Women physical scientists KW - Biography. KW - Meitner, Lise, KW - Biography KW - Meitner, Lise KW - Women physicists - Austria - Biography UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:6802928 AB - Lise Meitner (1878-1968) was a pioneer of nuclear physics and co-discoverer, with Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann, of nuclear fission. Braving the sexism of the scientific world, she joined the prestigious Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry and became a prominent member of the international physics community. Of Jewish origin, Meitner fled Nazi Germany for Stockholm in 1938 and later moved to Cambridge, England. Her career was shattered when she fled Germany, and her scientific reputation was damaged when Hahn took full credit-and the 1944 Nobel Prize-for the work they had done together on ER -