https://padlet.com/jack1390/c9429ezdlg3z A Famous Physicist en-us 2018-04-13 14:21:11 UTC 2018-04-24 14:18:48 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Rafaelo.png jack1390 https://padlet.com/jack1390/c9429ezdlg3z/wish/251574137 Over roughly 6 decades of scientific Work!]]> 2018-04-13 14:28:51 UTC https://padlet.com/jack1390/c9429ezdlg3z/wish/251574137 jack1390 https://padlet.com/jack1390/c9429ezdlg3z/wish/251575949 Meitner collaborated with a chemist named Otto Hahn while discovering nuclear fission, however Hahn was the sole recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work in 1944.]]> 2018-04-13 14:32:20 UTC https://padlet.com/jack1390/c9429ezdlg3z/wish/251575949 jack1390 https://padlet.com/jack1390/c9429ezdlg3z/wish/251577076 2018-04-13 14:34:15 UTC https://padlet.com/jack1390/c9429ezdlg3z/wish/251577076 jack1390 https://padlet.com/jack1390/c9429ezdlg3z/wish/251580534 2018-04-13 14:40:42 UTC https://padlet.com/jack1390/c9429ezdlg3z/wish/251580534 jack1390 https://padlet.com/jack1390/c9429ezdlg3z/wish/251582973 Was awarded her degree in 1906 after 5 years of study.]]> 2018-04-13 14:45:19 UTC https://padlet.com/jack1390/c9429ezdlg3z/wish/251582973 jack1390 https://padlet.com/jack1390/c9429ezdlg3z/wish/251585112 Accepted the job offer in 1926 and became the head of the Physics department in 1935]]> 2018-04-13 14:50:05 UTC https://padlet.com/jack1390/c9429ezdlg3z/wish/251585112 jack1390 https://padlet.com/jack1390/c9429ezdlg3z/wish/251588057 2018-04-13 14:55:09 UTC https://padlet.com/jack1390/c9429ezdlg3z/wish/251588057 jack1390 https://padlet.com/jack1390/c9429ezdlg3z/wish/251591252 2018-04-13 15:00:57 UTC https://padlet.com/jack1390/c9429ezdlg3z/wish/251591252 jack1390 https://padlet.com/jack1390/c9429ezdlg3z/wish/251591498 Studied with Meitner under Max Planck, later convinced President Roosevelt to create the Manhattan Project in fear that the Germans would create an atomic bomb with Meitner's findings.]]> 2018-04-13 15:01:25 UTC https://padlet.com/jack1390/c9429ezdlg3z/wish/251591498 jack1390 https://padlet.com/jack1390/c9429ezdlg3z/wish/251591725 Longtime collaborator and partner of Meitner, they made most of their scientific discoveries as a team. However, Hahn took full credit for the discovery of Nuclear Fission when Meitner made key insights into it's discovery.]]> 2018-04-13 15:01:52 UTC https://padlet.com/jack1390/c9429ezdlg3z/wish/251591725 jack1390 https://padlet.com/jack1390/c9429ezdlg3z/wish/251591946 Regarded as the father of Quantum Theory, Meitner attended his lectures before becoming his assistant.]]> 2018-04-13 15:02:25 UTC https://padlet.com/jack1390/c9429ezdlg3z/wish/251591946 jack1390 https://padlet.com/jack1390/c9429ezdlg3z/wish/251593063 Nephew of Meitner, worked with her in developing the term "fission" and was a frequent collaborator of her's. Also worked on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos]]> 2018-04-13 15:04:29 UTC https://padlet.com/jack1390/c9429ezdlg3z/wish/251593063 jack1390 https://padlet.com/jack1390/c9429ezdlg3z/wish/251594170 Discovered X-ray Crystallography, also mentored by Planck and a friend of Meitner. Won the 1914 Nobel Prize in Physics]]> 2018-04-13 15:06:37 UTC https://padlet.com/jack1390/c9429ezdlg3z/wish/251594170 jack1390 https://padlet.com/jack1390/c9429ezdlg3z/wish/251599345 2018-04-13 15:16:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jack1390/c9429ezdlg3z/wish/251599345 jack1390 https://padlet.com/jack1390/c9429ezdlg3z/wish/251602416 2018-04-13 15:22:43 UTC https://padlet.com/jack1390/c9429ezdlg3z/wish/251602416 jack1390 https://padlet.com/jack1390/c9429ezdlg3z/wish/251923866 At the University of Vienna, Meitner studied physics under Boltzmann on her way to getting her doctorate. Meitner's nephew Otto highly praised Boltzmann, claiming that "Boltzmann gave her the vision of physics as a battle for ultimate truth, a vision she never lost."]]> 2018-04-15 19:16:35 UTC https://padlet.com/jack1390/c9429ezdlg3z/wish/251923866 jack1390 https://padlet.com/jack1390/c9429ezdlg3z/wish/251950342 Niels Bohr was a longtime mentor and collaborator of Meitner. Bohr also aided in Meitner's escape from Hitler's regime and helped situate her with her nephew Otto in Sweden. Bohr also gave incredible insights into the arrangement of electrons outside of nuclei in his career.]]> 2018-04-15 23:29:52 UTC https://padlet.com/jack1390/c9429ezdlg3z/wish/251950342 jack1390 https://padlet.com/jack1390/c9429ezdlg3z/wish/251957224 2018-04-16 00:34:22 UTC https://padlet.com/jack1390/c9429ezdlg3z/wish/251957224 jack1390 https://padlet.com/jack1390/c9429ezdlg3z/wish/251957410 Alongside Otto Hahn, Meitner discovered then developed radioactive recoil, a physical separation method between radioactive atoms. She also discovered the cause of the emission of electrons from surfaces of atoms with 'signature' energies, which was later named the Auger Effect, named after a physicist who discovered the same effect later.]]> 2018-04-16 00:35:48 UTC https://padlet.com/jack1390/c9429ezdlg3z/wish/251957410 jack1390 https://padlet.com/jack1390/c9429ezdlg3z/wish/251957492 Meitner was forced to flee to Sweden to escape the Nazi Regime in Germany, so she did not physically take part in the chemical experiments that proved nuclear fission. However, she did theorize what would happen and give direction to Hahn through letters, and also applied many existing equations and theories to explain nuclear fission from a physics standpoint. ]]> 2018-04-16 00:36:18 UTC https://padlet.com/jack1390/c9429ezdlg3z/wish/251957492