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Birth of Lise Meitner

November 1878

Austrian-Swedish physicist. Lise Meitner was born in November 1878 in what is now Austria. Lise Meitner is remembered as a nuclear physicist, university teacher and chemist, a citizen of Cisleithania and Austria. Notable works include “discovery of nuclear fission” and “discovery”. Positions held included professor.

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