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 |