Lise Meitner

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  • Born

    Lise was born on Nov. 7, 1878.

  • University of Vienna

    Lise enrolled the University of Vienna.

  • Doctorate

    Lise graduates from college with her doctorate in Physics, which says that she's an expert in Physics and can be a professor if she wants.

  • Begins work with Otto Hahn

    Lise went to Berlin, Germany to work with Otto Hahn and Max Planck.

  • Nurse

    Worked as an X-Ray nurse during World War 1.

  • Discovey

    Lise and her partners discoveved proactinium.

  • Lecturer

    Lise bacame the first woman to lecture at the University of Berlin.

  • Moved

    Lise went to Sweden to escape the Nazis.

  • Letters

    Partners wrote a letter to Nature Journal about fission.

  • Prize

    Hahn received the phyics nobel prize but Lise Meitner's work was ignored.

  • Royal

    Lise became a royal swedish academy of scieces foreign member.

  • Atom Bomb

    The Atomic Bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. Lise never wanted the things she studied to be used that way.

  • Became citizen of Sweden

    Lise became a citizen of Sweden.

  • Awarded

    Lise was awarded the German Physics Society 's Max Planck Medal.

  • Enrico Fermi Award

    Lise, Hahn, and Strssmann got awarded the Enrico Fermi Award.

  • Died

    Lise Meitner died in Cambridge England.

  • Meitnerium

    Meitnerium, element 109, was named after her.