Nuclear Fission Lise Meitner First World War Causes

Lise meitner 18781968 was an austrian swedish physicist who gave the first theoretical explanation of nuclear fission.

Nuclear household meaning russia air force. During world war i meitner volunteered as an x ray nurse in the austrian army. 7 november 1878 27 october 1968 was an austrian swedish physicist who contributed to the discoveries of the element protactinium and nuclear fissionwhile working at the kaiser wilhelm institute on radioactivity she discovered the radioactive isotope protactinium 231 in 1917. Eleonora adami sci illustrate stories.

Lise meitner l i z e m a t n er. Meitner was the first to realize einsteins famous equation emc 2 was at play here converting mass into energy. Upon returning to berlin she was made head of a physics section at the kwi where she did research in nuclear physics.

Lise meitners co discovery of nuclear fission in the 1940s led to nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons. The most deserving scientist never to win a noble prize hahn published his chemical evidence for fission without listing meitner as a co author understandable as he was in hitlers version of germany and she was of jewish heritage. Featuring artwork words by dr.