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What significant term did Lise Meitner coin in the field of nuclear physics?
What significant term did Lise Meitner coin in the field of nuclear physics?
In which year did Lise Meitner publish her theory of nuclear fission?
In which year did Lise Meitner publish her theory of nuclear fission?
What honor did Lise Meitner receive for her contributions in 1966?
What honor did Lise Meitner receive for her contributions in 1966?
What was the focus of Lise Meitner's dissertation?
What was the focus of Lise Meitner's dissertation?
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At what age did Lise Meitner become one of the first women to attend the University of Vienna's physics course?
At what age did Lise Meitner become one of the first women to attend the University of Vienna's physics course?
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Which physicist did Lise Meitner work with that influenced her academic career?
Which physicist did Lise Meitner work with that influenced her academic career?
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Why did Lise Meitner flee to Sweden in 1938?
Why did Lise Meitner flee to Sweden in 1938?
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What role did Otto Hahn play in Lise Meitner's work on nuclear fission?
What role did Otto Hahn play in Lise Meitner's work on nuclear fission?
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What was the primary result observed by Lise Meitner when uranium was bombarded with neutrons?
What was the primary result observed by Lise Meitner when uranium was bombarded with neutrons?
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Who assisted Lise Meitner in fleeing to Sweden during the Nazi threat?
Who assisted Lise Meitner in fleeing to Sweden during the Nazi threat?
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Which year marked the discovery of nuclear fission that involved Lise Meitner's theoretical explanation?
Which year marked the discovery of nuclear fission that involved Lise Meitner's theoretical explanation?
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What significance did Lise Meitner's explanation of nuclear fission have on science?
What significance did Lise Meitner's explanation of nuclear fission have on science?
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In which year did Enrico Fermi create the first working nuclear chain reactor?
In which year did Enrico Fermi create the first working nuclear chain reactor?
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Which event contributed to Lise Meitner's increasingly dangerous situation in the 1930s?
Which event contributed to Lise Meitner's increasingly dangerous situation in the 1930s?
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What was the primary role of Otto Hahn in Lise Meitner's research?
What was the primary role of Otto Hahn in Lise Meitner's research?
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What significant scientific principle did Lise Meitner apply to explain the nuclear fission process?
What significant scientific principle did Lise Meitner apply to explain the nuclear fission process?
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Lise Meitner: Austrian Theoretical Physicist
- Lise Meitner was born in Vienna, Austria, the third of eight children in a Jewish family.
- Her father, a lawyer, created a stimulating intellectual environment.
- Meitner showed early interest in mathematics and physics.
- She was privately tutored after the age of 14, bypassing the limitations on girls' education in Austria.
- Meitner passed the University of Vienna entrance exam in 1901, aged 23.
- She became one of the first women to study physics at the university.
- She was mentored by Ludwig Boltzmann.
- Meitner earned a doctorate in physics in 1906, becoming the second woman to do so at the university.
- Her thesis focused on heat transfer in solids.
- She proved that heat moves through particles with uneven distribution similarly to how electricity moves.
- Meitner kept a mathematics notebook from the age of 8.
Meitner's Scientific Contributions
- Meitner coined the term "nuclear fission."
- She explained the scientific process behind the splitting of uranium atoms, first carried out by her colleagues in 1938.
- Her work was done in collaboration with other colleagues.
- She was instrumental in understanding how uranium atoms split.
- Meitner and her nephew Otto Frisch published a paper detailing nuclear fission in 1939 in Nature.
Meitner's Life and Career
- Meitner escaped Nazi Germany in 1938.
- She fled to Sweden.
- She initially had trouble accessing her experiment data due to being unable to see the experimental results.
- She relied on data sent by her colleague Otto Hahn (by letter) to analyze the process of nuclear fission
- Meitner did not receive the Nobel Prize.
- Meitner received the Enrico Fermi Award in 1966, a significant recognition.
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Explore the life and achievements of Lise Meitner, an Austrian theoretical physicist who played a crucial role in the discovery of nuclear fission. From her early education in Vienna to her contributions in physics, this quiz highlights key moments and concepts of her work. Test your knowledge on one of the foremost women in science!
