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Meitnerium is named after Austrian physicist Lise Meitner, who worked out the theoretical basis for nuclear fission of uranium.
Women in Chemistry @ Chemical Heritage Foundation Peggy 2008
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Meitnerium is named after Austrian physicist Lise Meitner, who worked out the theoretical basis for nuclear fission of uranium.
Archive 2008-09-01 Peggy 2008
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At any rate, it’s apparently their 109th such open post, so to mark the occasion, the post includes an interesting bit about Element 109 in the Periodic Table, which is now known as Meitnerium, after the physicist Lise Meitner.
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GSI has already named their officially recognized elements 107 to 111: element 107 is called Bohrium, element 108 Hassium, element 109 Meitnerium, element 110 Darmstadtium, and element 111 is named Roentgenium.
New Chemical Element In The Periodic Table | Impact Lab 2009
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Meitnerium, named for his great-aunt physicist Lise Meitner.
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The GSI team has also synthesized Meitnerium (1982), Hassium (1984), Darmstadtium (1994),
RIA Novosti 2010
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The other elements carry the names Bohrium (element 107), Hassium (element 108), Meitnerium (element 109), Darmstadtium
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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The other elements carry the names Bohrium (element 107), Hassium (element 108), Meitnerium (element 109), Darmstadtium
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Meitnerium, element 110 Darmstadtium, and element 111 is named Roentgenium.
innovations-report 2009
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As to whoever said that brilliant women in the West have always gotten attention, I offer this from my blog post of the other day: "Here's a blurb from my biography of Lise Meitner, for whom Meitnerium, element 109 on the Periodic Table was named: "The Chemistry Institute at Friedrich Wilhelm University was completely off-limits to women: Emil Fischer was afraid they would set fire to their hair, having once had a Russian student with an "exotic" hairstyle.
"If 'brain sex' sounds like gender stereotyping, Dr. Moir says there is a twist: Brain sex doesn't always match biological sex." Ann Althouse 2009
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