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- 1Scientists honour physicist Lise Meitner on her birthday●Happy birthday to # physicist Lise Meitner (1878-1968) who explained # nuclear # fission . She worked with chemists Hahn
Tributes are marking the birthday of Austrian-Swedish physicist Lise Meitner, born in 1878. Meitner, working with chemists Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann in 1930s Berlin, helped explain nuclear fission after experiments bombarding uranium-235 with neutrons. Many posts note she was long overlooked, with Hahn receiving the Nobel Prize while her role was under-recognised.