Lise Meitner FRS (7 or 17 November 1878 - 27 October 1968) was an Austrian-born, later Swedish, physicist who worked on radioactivity and nuclear physics. Meitner was part of the team that discovered nuclear fission, an achievement for which her colleague Otto Hahn was awarded the Nobel Prize. Read more
You've heard of physics J. Robert Oppenheimer, the "father of the A-Bomb." But have you head of Lise Meitner? Her discovery of nuclear fission opened the door to the creation of the atom bomb, much to her regret.
Lise Meitner (7 or 17 November 1878 - 27 October 1968) was an Austrian-born, later Swedish physicist who studied radioactivity and nuclear physics Lise Meitner was part of the team that discovered nuclear fission, an achievement for which her colleague Otto Hahn was awarded the Nobel Prize. Meitner is often mentioned as one of the most glaring examples of women's scientific achievement overlooked by the Nobel committee. Source