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- Dr. Lise Meitner, Austrian-born nuclear physicist, died at 89 in a Cambridge nursing home.
- She is recognized for calculating the energy released by splitting the uranium atom and for laying the theoretical groundwork for the atomic bomb.
- Meitner collaborated with Dr. Otto Hahn for 30 years at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, where they conducted pioneering research in radioactivity.
- She was forced to leave just before the discovery of nuclear fission.
