Lise Meitner
Angélique Sanchez
- Timeline
- 1878-1968
- Field
- Radioactivity
- Institution
- University of Vienna, Austria
- Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, Germany
- University of Berlin, Germany
- Manne Siegbahn Laboratory, Sweden
- University College of Stockholm, Sweden
- Known for
- The discovery of protactinium and nuclear fission
- Distinctions
- Lieben Prize, 1925
- Max Planck Medal, 1949
- Otto Hahn Prize, 1955
- ForMemRS, 1955
- Wilhelm Exner Medal, 1960
- Enrico Fermi Award, 1966
- Establishement of the Lise Meitner Prize by the European Physical Society (nuclear physics division) in her honor
