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Lise Meitner
Lise Meitner was born in Austria and is a nuclear physicist. She collaborated alongside Otto Hahn to discover the element Protactinium while studying under notable scientists like as Ludwig Boltzmann and Max Planck. Though she was ignorant of the darker side of her studies, she was part in research that would lead to the discovery of nuclear fission and the eventual construction of the atom bomb. Meitner had to leave to Sweden when the Nazis came to power. Despite her rejection of the Nobel Prize, she was acknowledged by the scientific community by having an element named after her — Meitnerium.
