Title: Lise Meitner

Jewish theoretical physics that was born in Vienna and in 1918 discovered together with Otto Hahn, the radioactive element proactinium (Pa), which is named because when disintegrated it gives rise to isotopes of actinium

A pioneer of nuclear fission, despite being discriminated against as a woman and as a Jew, she is known as the physics that initiated the atomic age. He did not want to participate in the Manhattan project, related to the atomic bomb.

Her work for over 30 years with the experimental chemist Hahn was fruitful, even when Meitner was not allowed access to laboratories to be a woman, and when she had to leave Germany to go into exile in Sweden from where they continued to collaborate.

Surprisingly, the chemist with whom she worked, Hahn, received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry alone, although both signed the discovery of the proactin. She accepted that he appeared as the chief investigator in a show of thanks, and he justified it because she was Jewish.

Perhaps to compensate for her life discrimination, the element meitnerium (Mt), discovered many years after her death, is the only element named in honor of a female scientist alone.