Lise Meitner - Vienna, Austria
N 48° 12.095 E 016° 22.611
33U E 602304 N 5339621
A plaque honoring alumnus Lise Meitner is located on the front of the historic Akademisches Gymnasium, the oldest secondary school in Vienna, Austria.
Waymark Code: WMMEJC
Location: Wien, Austria
Date Posted: 09/09/2014
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The plaque reads:
Lise Meitner
Maturierte 1901 als externe schülerin am
Akademischen Gymnasium in Wien.
Sie war massgeblich an der entdeckung
und interpretation der kernspaltung beteiligt
[English translation courtesy of Google Translate]
Lise Meitner
Graduated in 1901 as an external student at the
Academic Gymnasium in Vienna.
She was instrumental in the discovery
and interpretation of nuclear fission
The following information about Lise Meitner is from Wikipedia (
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"Lise Meitner (7 November 1878 – 27 October 1968) was an Austrian physicist who worked on radioactivity and nuclear physics. Meitner was part of the team that discovered nuclear fission, an achievement for which her colleague Otto Hahn was awarded the Nobel Prize. Meitner is often mentioned as one of the most glaring examples of women's scientific achievement overlooked by the Nobel committee. A 1997 Physics Today study concluded that Meitner's omission was "a rare instance in which personal negative opinions apparently led to the exclusion of a deserving scientist" from the Nobel. Element 109, meitnerium, is named in her honour."