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(1878 - 1968) 
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Lise Meitner was born in Austria in 1878 and worked with a radiochemist named Otto Hahn. Together they studied the effects of neturon bombardment on uranium. She went to Sweden just before the Second World War broke out and continued her research with her nephew Otto Frisch. Through experimentation, they realized that the uranium nucleus could be split causing energy to be released. The process was called fission. Meitner refused to work on atomic weapons but did experimental work on a nuclear reactor to produce power. |