Lise Meitner (* 17. November 1878 in Wien; † 27. Oktober 1968 in Cambridge)

                   "Lise", 2010, Öl & Acryl auf Leinwand, 120 x 90 cm

Lise Meitner war eine österreichisch-schwedische Kernphysikerin. Unter anderem lieferte sie im Januar 1939 zusammen mit Otto Frisch die erste physikalisch-theoretische Erklärung der Kernspaltung, die ihr Kollege Otto Hahn und dessen Assistent Fritz Straßmann am 17. Dezember 1938 entdeckt und mit radiochemischen Methoden nachgewiesen hatten.

Lise Meitner (7 or 17 November 1878 – 27 October 1968) was an Austrian-born, later Swedish physicist who worked on radioactivity and nuclear physics. Meitner was part of the team that discovered nuclear fission, an achievement for which her colleague Otto Hahn was awarded the Nobel Prize. Meitner is often mentioned as one of the most glaring examples of women's scientific achievement overlooked by the Nobel committee. A 1997 Physics Today study concluded that Meitner's omission was "a rare instance in which personal negative opinions apparently led to the exclusion of a deserving scientist" from the Nobel.[5]