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Day 13 of Women's History Month 2025
Joni Mitchell
March 11th #WomensHistoryMonth spotlight:
Lise Meitner: a physicist who never lost her humanity.
"Lise Meitner was an Austrian-Swedish physicist best remembered for her contributions that led to the discoveries of nuclear fission and the element protactinium. Nicknamed the German Marie Curie by Albert Einstein, Lise Meitner became the second woman in the world to receive a doctorate in physics in 1905. In 1997, chemical element 109 meitnerium was named in her honor."

Lise Meitner (1878-1968) was an Austrian physicist. Meitner was part of the team that discovered and explained nuclear fission and foresaw its explosive potential. She refused to work on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, declaring, "I will have nothing to do with a bomb!" Her epitaph on her gravestone, written by…