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The collection contains diaries and personal papers from 1890 onwards, Meitner's scientific notebooks from 1913 and offprints of articles from 1904, but the principle interest of the collection lies in the voluminous correspondence Meitner kept up with scientists all over the world, many of whom, like her, were exiles from Germany, which provides a wealth of detailed information on their various research projects. There are also photographs, many of them taken at scientific gatherings.

91 boxes.

American Institute of Physics

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Meitner, Lise, 1878-1968

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Lise Meitner was born in Austria on 7 November 1878, the daughter of the Viennese lawyer, Phillip Meitner. In 1901 she entered the University of Vienna, becoming Doctor of Philosophy in 1906. In the following year Meitner left Austria and went to Berlin [Germany] to study with the physicist Max Planck, becoming joint discoverer of Thorium-C in 1908. In 1912 Meitner moved on to work with Otto Hahn at the Chemical Institute, Kaiser Wilhelm Gesellschaft, in Göttingen. During the First World War ...