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    Lise Meitner was an Austrian-Swedish physicist who lived from 1878 to 1968. She discovered the radioactive element protactinium and worked on radioactive and nuclear topics during the 1900s. Meitner had to work in the basement of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute due to rules barring women, but later became the first female physics professor in Germany. She was forced to flee Germany in 1938 due to her Jewish heritage and the rise of the Nazis, but continued her scientific work until her death.

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    Lise Meitner was an Austrian-Swedish physicist who lived from 1878 to 1968. She discovered the radioactive element protactinium and worked on radioactive and nuclear topics during the 1900s. Meitner had to work in the basement of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute due to rules barring women, but later became the first female physics professor in Germany. She was forced to flee Germany in 1938 due to her Jewish heritage and the rise of the Nazis, but continued her scientific work until her death.

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    Lise Meitner was an Austrian-Swedish physicist who lived from 1878 to 1968. She discovered the radioactive element protactinium and worked on radioactive and nuclear topics during the 1900s. Meitner had to work in the basement of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute due to rules barring women, but later became the first female physics professor in Germany. She was forced to flee Germany in 1938 due to her Jewish heritage and the rise of the Nazis, but continued her scientific work until her death.

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    Emily Rowles HR18 ID#53

    Science 2/6/17

    Lise Meitner

    Lise Meitner
    Lise Meitner, a scientist, was one of the many people who worked on radioactive and nuclear

    things during the 1900s. She was born in 1878 in Austria. She also discovered the radioactive element

    protactinium. She later died in 1968 after doing many things in her lifetime.

    Lise Meitner’s parents were a lawyer and a homemaker. Once she got older, she tried to get into

    The University of Vienna in 1901. She had a tutor to help her get into the university. In 1907, she moved

    to Berlin after earning a doctorate in physics. She tried to get into the Kaiser Institute and was going to

    be declined, however Otto Ilahn needed an assistant to work with him. Because of this, she was allowed

    to work in the school, but had to do so in the basement because of the no girls allowed rule.

    After discovering the element protactinium, she was the first women to become a physics

    professor there. She was forced to move to leave her home because of World War Two. Since she was

    Jewish, she had to leave her home because of the Nazi threat. She continued to work until her death in

    1968.

    Because of her and other scientist’s work, many other people made radioactive and nuclear

    things to help in wars and other things. Because of her going to do things like this, many other young

    women and girls were able to go do things like Lise did. She was able to set a pathway for other people

    to do great things.

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