Lise Meitner

Lise Meitner was a prominent nuclear physicist who worked in Berlin from 1907 to 1938. Despite facing significant barriers as a woman, including being initially excluded from laboratories and struggling to secure a regular academic position, she became one of the world's leading nuclear physicists. In 1938, she fled Nazi Germany to Sweden, where she spent the next 20 years continuing her research. Along with her nephew Otto Frisch, she was the first to interpret Otto Hahn's experimental results, leading to the discovery of nuclear fission—a groundbreaking contribution to physics. Her work laid foundational insights into atomic energy and its applications.