biography
pronunciation:
[miytner]
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| female
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| lived:
| (1878–1968)
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| biography:
| Physicist, born in Vienna, Austria. She studied at Vienna, and became a professor in Berlin (1926–38), where she was also a member of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry (1907–38). In 1917 she shared with Otto Hahn the discovery of the radioactive element protactinium, and became known for her work on nuclear physics. In 1938 she fled from Nazi Germany to the Nobel Physical Institute, Sweden, moving from there to the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, Stockholm, in 1947. With her nephew Frisch she devised the idea of nuclear fission in late 1938. She retired to England in 1960. |
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