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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 33. Chapters: Lise Meitner, List of North European Jews, Eric Prydz, Willy Gordon, Johan Gustaf Renat, Josef Frank, Lars Ernster, Werner Wolf Glaser, Lars Gustafsson, Mimi Pollak, Johan Harmenberg, Rudolf Meidner, Robert Barany, Olof Aschberg, Lovisa Augusti, Dror Feiler, Leif Pagrotsky, Isaac Grunewald, Mauritz Stiller, Nicklas Grossman, Leif Silbersky, Oskar Klein, Daniel Lifshitz, Bo Rothstein, Herbert Felix, Ernest Thiel, Erland Josephson, Jonas Gladnikoff, Aaron Isaac, Jerzy Einhorn, Maciej Zaremba, Oscar Levertin, Marcel Riesz, Jean-Pierre Barda, Dominika Peczynski, Alexander Cooper, Bonnier family, Ernst Josephson, Eli Heckscher, Sara Sommerfeld, Ulf Adelsohn, Adam Cwejman, Mathilda Berwald, Margit Fischer, Henriette Nissen-Saloman, Jerzy Sarnecki, Harry Schein, Marcus Storch, Amalia Assur, Eric Fischbein, Hjalmar Mehr, Alexandra Rapaport, Robert Weil, Mietek Grocher, Reuben Sallmander, Harry Flam, Hugo Valentin, Peter Perski. Excerpt: Lise Meitner FRS (7 or 17 November 1878 - 27 October 1968) was an Austrian-born, later Swedish, 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 honor. Meitner was born into a Jewish family as the third of eight children in Vienna, 2nd district (Leopoldstadt). Her father, Philipp Meitner, was one of the first Jewish lawyers in Austria. She was born on 7 November 1878. She shortened...
