Lise Meitner
1878 – 1968 · Austria · Physics, Chemistry
Explained nuclear fission; passed over by the Nobel committee. Element 109 is meitnerium.
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- Ernest Rutherford
1871 – 1937 · Physics, Chemistry
Rutherford's radioactivity programme framed the transmutation work that ended in fission.
- Marie Skłodowska-Curie
1867 – 1934 · Physics, Chemistry
Radiochemistry as Curie practised it — isolate, measure, name — is Meitner's method.
- Niels Bohr
1885 – 1962 · Physics
Bohr carried Meitner and Frisch's fission interpretation to America in 1939.
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