Lise Meitner
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Austrian-Swedish physicist
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Lise Meitner's Degrees
- PhD Physics University of Vienna
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Lise Meitner was an Austrian-Swedish physicist who was one of those responsible for the discovery of the element protactinium and nuclear fission. While working on radioactivity at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Chemistry in Berlin, she discovered the radioactive isotope protactinium-231 in 1917. In 1938, Meitner and her nephew, the physicist Otto Robert Frisch, discovered nuclear fission. She was praised by Albert Einstein as the "German Marie Curie".
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