Lise Meitner
place a picture here	Lise Meitner has been called "the woman behind the bomb." She was a physicist  born and educated in Vienna, She later moved to Berlin where she met and worked with Otto Hahn Max Planck and Albert Einstein who called Meitner "our Madam Curie." Like Curie she was ignored for the Nobel Prize because of her gender and jealousy and which has come to be called the Nobel "mistake." After the rise of Hitler, Meitner left Berlin with a small suitcase and with the help of Dutch physicists escaped to Holland in 1938 and then on to Sweden. She had been the director of the Institute of Chemistry when she had to leave. In Sweden she worked with the Niels Bohr.       Lise Meitner was born  1878 in Vienna, Austria. Lise Meitner was the third of eight children. Meitner spend her childhood in Leopoldstadt. From a young age Meitner played the piano. At school Lise's favorite subjects were mathematics and science.  At the age of thirteen she had completed as much education for a girl at this stage could possibly achieve simply because women were not allowed to attend university . There are many times when her gender and Jewish heritage denied her the recognition she deserved. However, changes were beginning and by the late 1890's women were being admitted to institutions of higher learning.       Lise went to University of Vienna in 1901. The syllabus was heavy filled with physics, chemistry, botany, and calculus and took over twenty five hours a week for coursework.  She got bored by lectures but she was fascinated with the laboratory and as a result she decided to pursue a career in physics. Meitner studied mechanics, electricity, magnetism, elasticity, hydrodynamics, acoustics, optics, thermodynamics, and kinetic theory.  Meitner began her doctoral research and with Ludwig Boltzmann who only served to strengthen her determination and stick with physics. She received her doctorate in physics in 1905 from the University of Vienna, the second woman ever to do so.        In 1907 Meitner went to study in Berlin. This is where she worked without pay until 1913 when she received her own physics section. She worked with Otto Hahn on many important discoveries. Her work was about atoms. The neutron was discovered in 1930 and this was an exciting time in chemistry. She left due to the rise of the Nazis and was fifty nine years old when she arrived in Sweden. In 1934 she had her most significant accomplishment  published.  She and her nephew Otto Frisch used Niel Bohr's  model of nucleus to explain the splitting of the uranium atom. Meitner with her nephew, came up with the theory that explained nuclear fission. Her contributions on nuclear physics changed the world. In 1994 she had the element 109 named after her, meitnerium.      I	;