Meitner (surname)
Meitner is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Erika Meitner (born 1975), American poet *Lise Meitner (1878–1968), Austrian-Swedish nuclear physicist *Philipp Meitner (1838–1910), Austrian lawyer and chess master; father of Lise See also *Lotte Meitner-Graf (1898–1973), Austrian photographer *meitnerium Meitnerium is a synthetic chemical element; it has symbol Mt and atomic number 109. It is an extremely radioactive synthetic element (an element not found in nature, but can be created in a laboratory). The most stable known isotope, meitnerium ...

Erika Meitner
Erika Meitner (born 1975 in New York) is an American poet. Life She graduated from Dartmouth College with an A.B. in 1996, and from the University of Virginia with an MFA in creative writing, and an MA in religious studies. She taught at University of Virginia, University of California, Santa Cruz., and Virginia Tech She was a Fulbright Scholar in Creative Writing, at Queen's University Belfast. She teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her work has appeared in ''The Southern Review, The American Poetry Review, Shenandoah, Indiana Review, Alaska Quarterly Review,'' and ''Virginia Quarterly Review''. Bibliography Poetry ;Collections *''Inventory at the All-Night Drugstore,'' Anhinga Press, 2003. *''Ideal Cities'', HarperCollins, 2010. *''Makeshift Instructions for Vigilant Girls'', Anhinga Press, 2011. *''Copia'', BOA Editions, 2014. *''Holy Moly Carry Me'', BOA Editions, 2018. *''Useful Junk,'' BOA Editions, 2022. ISBN 978-1-950774-53-1 ;List of poems ...
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Lise Meitner
Elise Lise Meitner ( ; ; 7 November 1878 – 27 October 1968) was an Austrian-Swedish nuclear physicist who was instrumental in the discovery of nuclear fission. After completing her doctoral research in 1906, Meitner became the second woman from the University of Vienna to earn a doctorate in physics. She spent much of her scientific career in Berlin, where she was a physics professor and a department head at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry. She was the first woman to become a full professor of physics in Germany. She lost her positions in 1935 because of the anti-Jewish Nuremberg Laws of Nazi Germany, and the 1938 Anschluss resulted in the loss of her Austrian citizenship. On 13–14 July 1938, she fled to the Netherlands with the help of Dirk Coster. She lived in Stockholm for many years, ultimately becoming a Swedish citizen in 1949, but relocated to Britain in the 1950s to be with family members. In mid-1938, chemists Otto H ...
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Philipp Meitner
Philipp Meitner (24 August 1839, Vienna – 9 December 1910, Vienna) was an Austrian lawyer and chess master. His most famous game was the " Immortal Draw" ( Carl Hamppe vs Philipp Meitner, Vienna 1872). He won at Vienna 1875, and won a match against Adolf Schwarz (6½–3½) at Vienna 1878. Meitner played in two strong international tournaments in Vienna in 1873 and Vienna in 1882. He tied for 7–8th in the first tournament (Wilhelm Steinitz and Joseph Henry Blackburne won), and took 14th in the second one (Wilhelm Steinitz and Szymon Winawer won). He also tied for 8–9th at Vienna 1882 ( Vincenz Hruby won), took 8th at Vienna 1895 (Georg Marco won), took 4th at Vienna 1908 (Richard Réti won), and tied for 6–7th at Vienna 1909/1910 ( Trebitsch Memorial, Réti won). Meitner studied at the Vienna Polytechnic, and William Steinitz was a fellow student. Philipp Meitner was the father of Dr. Lise Meitner. See also * List of chess games This is a list of notable chess ga ...
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Lotte Meitner-Graf
Lotte Meitner-Graf (1899–1973, born as Charlotte Graf), was a noted Austrian black-and-white portrait photographer. She was married to physicist Lise Meitner's brother Walter (1891–1961). Meitner-Graf moved to England with her family in 1937, opening her own studio at 23 Old Bond Street in London in 1953.Paul Frecker - 19th Century Photography London
(Accessed April 2012) Frisch, in his ''Times'' obituary, noted that there "can be few educated people who have not seen one of Lotte Meitner-Graf’s photographic portraits, either on a book jacket (for instance,

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