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- Instance of
- human
- Born
- November 1878, 7 November 1878, 17 November 1878
- Died
- 27 October 1968
- Place of birth
- Vienna
- Place of death
- Cambridge
- Sex or gender
- female
- Family name
- pollender
- Father
- Philipp Meitner
- Mother
- Hedwig Meitner
- Field of work
- physics
- Occupation
- nuclear physicist, university teacher, chemist, physicist
- Position held
- professor
- Citizenship
- Cisleithania, Austria, Sweden
- Awards
- Silver Leibniz medal, Lieben Prize, Prize of the City of Vienna for Natural Sciences, Max Planck Medal, Enrico Fermi Award, Austrian Decoration for Science and Art, Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order, Otto Hahn Prize for Chemistry and Physics, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, Honorary doctor of the Free University of Berlin, Wilhelm Exner Medal, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- academic degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
- archives at
- archive of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
- birth name
- Elise Meitner
- described by source
- Dictionary of Swedish National Biography, Wissenschafterinnen in und aus Österreich, Dictionary of Women Worldwide, KALLIOPE Austria, Pioneers of Science and Technology, Forgotten Women: The Scientists, Women In Science, biografiA: Lexikon österreichischer Frauen, Q125459804, Physicists: Biographical Dictionary
- doctoral advisor
- Franz S. Exner, Ludwig Boltzmann
- doctoral student
- Rudolf Jaeckel, Arnold Flammersfeld
- educated at
- University of Vienna, Akademisches Gymnasium
- employer
- Frederick William University Berlin, Royal Institute of Technology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, University of Vienna, The Catholic University of America, Royal Institute of Technology
- languages spoken, written or signed
- German
- member of
- Royal Society, German Academy of Sciences at Berlin, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Austrian Academy of Sciences, German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony
- name in native language
- Elise Meitner
- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Physics
- notable work
- discovery, discovery of nuclear fission
- place of burial
- St James Churchyard
- relative
- Otto Robert Frisch
- significant person
- Max Planck, Eva von Bahr, Otto Hahn, Fritz Strassmann, Niels Bohr, Manne Siegbahn, Emma Jacobsson
- student
- Nikolaus Riehl
- topic's main category
- Category:Lise Meitner
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