Lise Meitner (1878 –1968) was a Jewish Austrian physicist who was one of those responsible for the discovery of the element protactinium and the discovery of nuclear fission.
She was the first woman to become a full professor of physics in Germany.
According to the Nobel Prize archive, she was nominated 19 times for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry between 1924 and 1948, and 30 times for the Nobel Prize in Physics between 1937 and 1967.
Despite not having been awarded the Nobel Prize, Meitner was invited to attend the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in 1962.
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