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- Dr. Lise Meitner, an Austrian-born nuclear physicist, died at 89 in a Cambridge nursing home.
- Meitner collaborated with Dr. Otto Hahn for 30 years at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute.
- Meitner calculated the energy released by splitting the uranium atom.
- She laid the theoretical groundwork for the atomic bomb.
- She did not participate in the bomb's production.
