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[–] [email protected] 74 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Lise Meitner went on to be forgotten? In my city, a big street bears her name, including the tram station there. Fittingly, it's the tram to the University that stops there. Essentially, her name is hammered into all students' heads here.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 months ago

My reaction exactly. I studied there as well. Lise Meitner may be underappreciated but at least someone made sure she's not forgotten.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago

Not to mention she’s been immortalized as Meitnerium

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Also she herself said that Otto Hahn deserved the Nobel prize. She and Otto Frisch (far kess known than she is!) did the theoretical work regarding the physics behind it.

But Pauli got the physics prize that year, and he sure deserves it. Maybe one of the later prices could have been awarded to her.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Otto Frisch is better known these days because he went on to work on the Manhatten Project. He appeared as a character in Oppenheimer.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Right? In germany there is a lot named after her. e.g. The Institute for Nuclear Research in Berlin is the “Hahn-Meitner-Institut” (after her and Otto Hahn). There are severals Schools and streets named after her all over the country.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Agree. There's a street, a monument, a research facility and two schools with her name in a 10km radius of me.