Meitnerium (element no. 109) is named for Austrian physicist Lise Meitner, who had to flee Berlin in 1935 (she was born Jewish, although she subsequently converted to Christianity) and then Austria in 1938 after the Anschluss. Largely because of that, she was not awarded a share of the 1944 Nobel Prize for chemistry given to her Berlin co-experimenter Otto Hahn (who handled the experimental work while she handled the theory).
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