Image: Lise Meitner standing at meeting with Arthur H. Compton and Katherine Cornell
Description: Description: Austrian-born physicist Lise Meitner (1878-1968) is shown here (at right) with actress Katherine Cornell and physicist Arthur H. Compton on June 6, 1946, when Meitner and Cornell were receiving awards from the National Conference of Christians and Jews. Meitner collaborated with Otto Hahn on the discovery of nuclear fission but was overlooked by the Royal Swedish Academy when they gave Hahn the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1945. Her contribution was formally acknowledged when she received the Fermi Prize in 1966.
Creator/Photographer: Arnold Sadow
Medium: Black and white photographic print
Date: 1946
Persistent URL: [1]
Repository: Smithsonian Institution Archives
Accession number: SIA2008-1175
Usage Terms: Public domain
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