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Meitner

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Meitner
Lise . 1878--1968, Austrian nuclear physicist. With Hahn, she discovered protactinium (1918), and they demonstrated with F. Strassmann the fission of uranium


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Examples include Inge Lehmann, who discovered that Earth has a solid core; Lise Meitner, a codiscoverer of the neutrino; Mary Lucy Cartwright, who made strides in formulating chaos theory; and the well-known Marie Curie, who discovered natural radioactivity.
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