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Lise Meitner (1878-1968) was an Austrian-Swedish physicist, part of the team who
first discovered the nuclear fission of uranium. Despite her significant
contributions to the project, she did not share the 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
won by her male colleague, Otto Hahn.

She was the first
woman to obtain a post as a professor of physics in Germany, a position which
she lost after several years because of anti-Jewish laws. The chemical element
meitnerium was named by her.