Elizabeth Blackwell
92% Profile Match
Photo: C.A. Briggs / Smithsonian Institution Archives, Science Service Collection (Acc. 90-105); Lise Meitner lecturing as Visiting Professor of Physics at Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., 1946 · Smithsonian Institution Archives, Science Service Collection, via Flickr Commons / Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
Trait Constellation
Similar People
People whose overall profiles resemble theirs.
Warren Buffett
91% Profile Match
Mary Wollstonecraft
91% Profile Match
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
90% Profile Match
Marie Curie
88% Profile Match
John D. Rockefeller
88% Profile Match
Opposite Profile
Not a rival — a different profile shape worth a look.
Theodore Roosevelt
30% Profile Match
Sources
- Lise Meitner
- Lise Meitner (Q56189)
- Mike Sutton, "Hahn, Meitner and the discovery of nuclear fission", Chemistry World (Royal Society of Chemistry), 5 Nov 2018 -- a science historian's feature synthesizing Frisch's memoir, Ruth Sime's biography, and Shea's edited volume on Hahn. Fully read in this cycle.
- Alan Chodos, "December 1938: Discovery of Nuclear Fission", APS News -- This Month in Physics History (American Physical Society), 3 Dec 2007. Fully read in this cycle.
- "Meitner & Frisch On Nuclear Fission" -- Key Document of the National Museum of Nuclear Science & History (Atomic Heritage Foundation), reproducing an extended excerpt from Leona Marshall Libby (Manhattan Project physicist), The Uranium People (Crane Russak/Scribner's, 1979), which itself quotes Otto Frisch's own firsthand account of the December 1938 walk in the snow at length, verbatim. Fully read in this cycle.
- "Lise Meitner" biographical profile, National Museum of Nuclear Science & History (Atomic Heritage Foundation) -- includes her directly quoted refusal to join the Allied bomb project and a dated timeline of her 1926 Berlin physics professorship. Fully read in this cycle.