Thursday, March 30; 7:00-8:00PM
Lise Meitner born into a Jewish family was an Austrian and later Swedish physicist who worked on radioactivity and nuclear physics. She was one of the great experimentalists of her day, dubbed by Einstein, “Our German Madame Curie” during their Berlin heyday in the roaring 1920’s. Meitner is the unsung hero of nuclear fission, having played an essential role in its 1938 discovery. Join Edward Sierra for this engaging and informative presentation, as he dips you into the life and science of Lise Meitner.
