[Dr. Lise Meitner, Austrian physicist, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing left] – Historic Photo Reproduction
![[Dr. Lise Meitner, Austrian physicist, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing left], [between 1940 and 1960] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/b2/b256e40b52e4-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [Dr. Lise Meitner, Austrian physicist, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing left]. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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[Dr. Lise Meitner, Austrian physicist, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing left]
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Seated and turned to the left in this three-quarter length view, Lise Meitner appears as the Austrian-born physicist whose work reshaped nuclear science. With Otto Hahn in Berlin, she helped explain how uranium nuclei split in 1938, and she soon fled Nazi Germany for Sweden. The portrait comes from Harris & Ewing, a Washington, D.C. studio known for its many sitters in public life. Hahn alone received the 1944 Nobel Prize in chemistry for the discovery, a omission historians still discuss.
| Created / published | [between 1940 and 1960] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1940-1960.Photographic prints 1940-1960. |
| Notes | Copyright by Harris & Ewing. |
| Subjects | Meitner, Lise,--1878-1968. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,175 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-170938 |
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