1. Dr. Lise Meitner Michelle Loeffler 2/15/2005 NS401

3. Life History Childhood and Early Education College Years Research Years Retirement Awards

4. Childhood Born November 7th, 1878 Vienna Austria Middle-class Jewish family Primary school

5. College Years Matura examination University of Vienna College schedule Mathematics Physics Mentors

6. Research Years Berlin, Germany (1907 – 1938) 1917 – Protactinium, Element 91 Radioactivity Stockholm, Sweden (1938 – 1960) 1939 – Nuclear Fission

7. Retirement Cambridge, England October 27 th, 1968

8. Honors Leibniz Medal – 1924 Ellen Richards Prize – 1928 Swedish Academy of Science – 1945 Woman of the Year – 1946 The Royal Society of London – 1946

9. Honors Max Planck Medal – 1949 Otto Hahn Award – 1954 Enrico Fermi Prize – 1966 Austrian postage stamp – 1978 Meitnerium, Element 109 – 1992

10. Biblography Anon. 2004a. The Manhattan Project Heritage Preservation Association. Available: http://www.childrenofthemanhattanproject.org/HF/Biographies% 20-%20Women/meitner.htm http://www.childrenofthemanhattanproject.org/HF/Biographies% 20-%20Women/meitner.htm Anon. 2004b. Origin of element names. Available: http://homepage.mac.com/dtrapp/people/Meitnerium.html http://homepage.mac.com/dtrapp/people/Meitnerium.html Bankston, J. 2004. Lise Meitner and the atomic age.Mitchell Lane Publishers. Hockessin. Hamilton, J. 2002. Lise Meitner: Pioneer of nuclear fission. Enslow, Inc Berkely Heights. Rife, P. 1999. Lise Meitner and the dawn of the nuclear age. Birkhauser. Boston. Sime, R.L. 1996. Lise Meitner: A life in physics. University of California Press. Berkeley.