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Physicist November 7, 1878 October 27, 1968 Cambridge, England Born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary Lise Meitner was known for discovering nuclear fission and the element protactinium. Nuclear fission is like marbles. You make the marbles into a big circle and take one of the marbles and launch it at the circle. This makes the marbles scatter and form other smaller groups but there are also some marbles that are left alone and those marbles are energy. The bigger circle is a nucleus and the smaller marbles are neutrons and protons. In more scientific terms, Lise Meitner and her partner Otto Hahn discovered that when a neutron from an atom was launched at an atom the atom would split and create smaller groups of neutrons and protons and some on the neutrons and protons would be without a group and those would become energy. The way the marbles and Lise Meitner related is because the marbles are explaining in a simpler way what she researched. The big marble circle in real life is an atoms nucleus and the marbles are protons and neutrons and the marble being launched at it would represent the neutron bullet. So her research resents the marbles, because of the atoms, the neutrons, and the protons. She worked in Berlin, Germany as a physicist working with radioactive elements. She met Albert Einstein and talked about her discovery of nuclear fission. She was nominated many times for the Nobel Prize. Barron, Rachel S. ‘//Lise Meitner: discoverer of nuclear fission.”// Reynolds, Morgan: Greensboro, NC, 2000. Print. //Meitner, Lise Funk & Wagnalls,//. Encyclopedia Article. Discovery Education. Web. 18 September 2013. . Famous Scientists. //“Lise Meitner.”// Famous Scientists. Famous Scientists, 2013, Web. 19 Sep 2013. Google Maps. “//Vienna, Austria-Hungary.”// Google. 2013. 19 Sep. 2013 //"nuclear energy."// Britannica School. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 2013.Web. 7 Sep. 2013. . //"nuclear energy."// Britannica School. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 2013.Web. 7 Sep. 2013. . Redd, Nola T. //‘What is Fission?.”// livescience, 2012. Web. 19 Sep 2013. Sime, Ruth L. //‘Lise Meitner: a life in physics.”// Berkeley University of California: California, 1996. Print. Wikipedia, //File:Lise Meitner (1878-1968), lecturing at Catholic University, Washington, D.C., 1946.jpg//. Wikipedia. 1 March 2010. Web. 18 Sep 2013 Wikipedia. //‘Lise Meitner.”// Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Wikipedia, 2013. Web. 19 Sep. 2013
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