Lise Meitner was an Austrian physicist who worked on radioactivity and nuclear physics. At the time, women were not permitted to attend the university in Austria, but she didn’t let that stop her. In 1926, she became the first woman in Germany to hold a professorship in physics. Meitner co-discovered nuclear fission. Nuclear fission is the action of dividing or splitting something into two or more parts. It was an achievement for which her colleague Otto Hahn was awarded the Nobel Prize. She died on October 27, 1968.
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