| A | B |
| Lise Meitner | famous woman physicist |
| Piano | the musical instrument she played |
| eight | the number of children in her family |
| Vienna, Austria | Meitner's birthplace |
| Study to become a teacher | her parents wanted her to do this |
| University of Berlin | She was not allowed to use the lab with the men here. |
| Otto Hahn | Meitner's research partner |
| Nobel Prize | She was overlooked for this recognition. |
| protactinium | element discovered by Meitner and Hahn |
| Nuclear fission | the name she gave her project |
| Atomic bomb | Others used her work to build this. |
| For peaceful purposes | how she wanted her work to be used |
| L. Meitner | how she signed her scientific articles |
| Hiroshima and Nagasaki | Japanese cities which were bombed |
| Otto Frisch | Meitner's nephew and co-worker |
| Eleanor Roosevelt | the First Lady with whom she worked for peace |
| Albert Einstein | called her "Our German Madame Curie" |
| Enrico Fermi Award | an award she received before she died |
| Meitnerium | element 109 named for her |
| Manhattan Project | the name for the development of the atomic bomb |