Meitner
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- proper noun
- /ˈmaɪt.nər/
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Lise Meitner
- In time, influential German scientists would publicly claim that Meitner would have prevented Hahn from making the discovery if she had remained in Berlin.
- Lise Meitner
- Meitner and Frisch
- Meitner and Hahn
But almost any answer to the question which scientists invented the atomic bomb will include the name Lise Meitner.
- But almost any answer to the question which scientists invented the atomic bomb will include the name Lise Meitner.
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Overnight, Lise Meitner lost the thin protection of her Austrian citizenship.
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Both reports recognized the importance of the theoretical work of Meitner and Frisch.
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On Tuesday, 12 July, Meitner arrived early in the institute.
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And it's while there that that Meitner had just received this letter from Han.
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No other scientist put it all together, and in any case, Meitner and Frisch were the first.
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Finally, there was one nomination that could hardly have helped Meitner's and Frisch's candidacy.
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Hulthen did not deny that Meitner and Frisch had provided insight into the fission process.
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And despite what Svedberg and Westgren claimed in their evaluations, the theoretical interpretation by Meitner and Frisch was considered seminal by the nuclear physics community.
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Alerted by Bohr, Dutch physicists Dirk Coster and Adriaan Fokker worked feverishly to obtain an entry permit for Meitner.
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Lise Meitner was a pioneering physicist who made significant contributions to nuclear fission.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Meitner is the family name of Lise Meitner, an Austrian-born Swedish physicist who helped develop the idea of 'nuclear fission', the splitting of atoms. Her name was given to the element meitnerium, so Meitner usually means the scientist or something named in her honor.