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The element Curium is named for both Pierre and Marie Curie, but which element was named for a female scientist?

Question #151683. Asked by pehinhota.
Last updated Aug 29 2024.
Originally posted Aug 29 2024 12:54 PM.

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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).

link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lise_Meitner
link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meitnerium

Response last updated by AyatollahK on Aug 29 2024.
Aug 29 2024, 1:55 PM
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