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Lise Meitner

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Austrian-Swedish physicist, 1878–1968. She collaborated with Otto Hahn in Berlin for thirty years until the 1938 Anschluss made her a stateless Jew under German law, forcing her flight to Stockholm. On a Christmas walk near Kungälv with her nephew Otto Frisch, she gave the first physical interpretation of nuclear fission. The Nobel committee omitted her from the 1944 prize; element 109, meitnerium, is named for her.

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