1. By Aapria’ Akers

2.  Born November 7 th 1878  3 of 8 children  From Vienna Austria  A famous physician  First women in Germany to be called a professor  Born a Jew  Was a Protestant though (converted in 1908 )  Known for discovering Nuclear Fusion

3.  Second women to get doctoral degree in physics in university of Vienna in 1905  Worked in Austrian Army as X- ray technician (1914-1916)  Wrote scientific articles to earn a income.  Signed with name L Meitner because they wouldn’t publish women’s work

4.  Studied in Berlin with Chemist Otto Hahn  In 1918 they discovered protactinium  Worked with him for 30 years  Discriminated on a bit because of her being a women  Worked at Kaiser- Wilhelm institute  Became joint director of institute & was appointed head of physics department in 1917

5. ◦ Had to leave work because Hitler was going after Germany ◦ Even though was protestant she couldn’t work at the institution any longer, because she was born a Jew ◦ Nazis refused to let her leave ◦ July 1938 someone came and illegally took her out of Germany ◦ Escaped to Sweden ◦ Started working for “ Nobel Institute of Physics in Stockholm” ◦ Where she discovered with nuclear fusion ◦ 30 years later she was asked to help with the “Manhattan project” but refused

6.  Was awarded the Leibniz Medal by Berlin academy of sciences for discovery of Protactinium  1922 Discovered Auger effect  Nazis erased all research she had done  She got no recognition at all for the discovery of Nuclear fusion  Otto took all of the credit

7.  Women of the year by women’s National press club  Won the “Enrico Fermi Award”  Elected to go in to Swedish Academy of science  Third women in history to get the honor  Offered movie deal with MGM  Helped Sweden invent its first nuclear reactor  109 th element was named in honor of her (“ meitnerium”)

8.  Became Swedish citizen in 1949  Moved to UK  In older years suffered from heart attacks, strokes and broken hip  Was moved to a nursing home  Died at age 90 in 1968  Three months after Otto

9.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lise_Meitner http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lise_Meitner  http://energyquest.ca.gov/scientists/meitner.html http://energyquest.ca.gov/scientists/meitner.html  http://www.atomicarchive.com/Bios/Meitner. shtml http://www.atomicarchive.com/Bios/Meitner. shtml  http://www.nndb.com/people/360/0000990 63/ http://www.nndb.com/people/360/0000990 63/