The Lise Meitner Prize for
nuclear physics
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, established in 2000, is awarded every two years by the
European Physical Society
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for outstanding work in the fields of experimental, theoretical or applied nuclear science. It is named after
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 ...
to honour her fundamental contributions to nuclear physics and her courageous and exemplary life.
Not to be confused with the
Gothenburg Lise Meitner Award.
Recipients
* 2020
Klaus Blaum, Björn Jonson,
*2018 ,
* 2016
* 2014
Johanna Stachel, ,
Paolo Giubellino,
* 2012 ,
Friedrich-Karl Thielemann
* 2010
* 2008
Reinhard Stock,
Walter Greiner
Walter Greiner (29 October 1935 – 6 October 2016) was a German theoretical physicist and professor of the Goethe University Frankfurt. His research interests lay in atomic physics, heavy ion physics, nuclear physics, elementary particle physic ...
* 2006 ,
David M. Brink
* 2004 ,
Peter J. Twin
* 2002
Phil Elliott
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Career
After contributing spot illustrations to comic fanzines such as '' Bem ...
,
* 2000
,
Gottfried Münzenberg
Gottfried Münzenberg (17 March 1940 – 2 January 2024) was a German physicist.
Life and career
Gottfried Münzenberg was born on 17 March 1940, into a family of Protestant ministers (father Pastor Heinz and mother Helene Münzenberg). All ...
,
Yuri Oganessian
Yuri Tsolakovich Oganessian (born 14 April 1933) is an Armenian and Russian nuclear physicist who is best known as a researcher of superheavy elements. He has led the discovery of multiple chemical elements. He succeeded Georgy Flyorov as dir ...
See also
*
List of physics awards
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References
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Awards of the European Physical Society
Nuclear physics