Editing Lise Meitner (section)

==Awards and honours==
Meitner was praised by Albert Einstein as the "German [[Marie Curie]]".<ref name="wapost"/> On her visit to the US in 1946, she received the honour "Woman of the Year" from the [[National Press Club (United States)|National Press Club]] and had dinner with the President of the United States, [[Harry S. Truman]], at the [[Women's National Press Club]].{{sfn|Yruma|2008|pp=161–164}} She received the Leibniz Medal from the [[Prussian Academy of Sciences]] in 1924, the [[Lieben Prize]] from the [[Austrian Academy of Sciences]] in 1925, the Ellen Richards Prize in 1928, the City of Vienna Prize for science in 1947, [[Max Planck Medal]] of the [[German Physical Society]] jointly with Hahn in 1949, the inaugural [[Otto Hahn Prize]] of the [[German Chemical Society]] in 1954,{{sfn|Frisch|1970|p=415}} the [[Wilhelm Exner Medal]] in 1960,<ref>{{cite web |title=Lise Meitner |url=https://www.wilhelmexner.org/medalists/lise-meitner/ |access-date=13 July 2020 |publisher=Österreichischer Gewerbeverein |language=de |archive-date=3 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200803112647/https://www.wilhelmexner.org/medalists/lise-meitner/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and in 1967, the [[Austrian Decoration for Science and Art]].<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=Der Standard |language=de |title=Ehre, wem Ehre nicht unbedingt gebührt |trans-title=Honour Where Honor is Not Necessarily Due |first=Klaus |last=Taschwer |date=21 June 2019 |url=https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000105140598/ehre-wem-ehre-nicht-unbedingt-gebuehrt |access-date=13 July 2020 |archive-date=3 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200803114321/https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000105140598/ehre-wem-ehre-nicht-unbedingt-gebuehrt |url-status=live }}</ref>

[[File:Lise Meitner Denkmal Unter den Linden Berlin (3).JPG|thumb|left|upright|Statue of Meitner by {{ill|Anna Franziska Schwarzbach|de}} at [[Humboldt University of Berlin]]]]

The [[President of Germany]], [[Theodor Heuss]], awarded Meitner the highest German order for scientists, the peace class of the [[Pour le Mérite]] in 1957, the same year as Hahn.{{sfn|Frisch|1970|p=415}} Meitner became a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1945, and a full member in 1951, permitting her to participate in the Nobel Prize process.{{sfn|Sime|1996|p=359}} Four years later she was elected a [[Foreign Member of the Royal Society]].{{sfn|Frisch|1970|p=405}} She was also elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] in 1960.<ref>{{cite web |title=Members of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences: 1780–2012 |page=363 |url=http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterM.pdf |publisher=American Academy of Arts and Sciences |access-date=29 July 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180921074103/https://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterM.pdf |archive-date=21 September 2018 }}</ref> She received honorary doctorates from [[Adelphi College]], the [[University of Rochester]], [[Rutgers University]] and Smith College in the United States,{{sfn|Frisch|1970|p=415}} the [[Free University of Berlin]] in Germany,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Emeriti and Honorary Doctors |date=23 January 2020 |publisher=Free University of Berlin |url=https://www.physik.fu-berlin.de/en/forschung/ehemalige-und-ehrendoktoren/index.html |access-date=5 November 2020 |archive-date=26 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201026044812/http://www.physik.fu-berlin.de/en/forschung/ehemalige-und-ehrendoktoren/index.html |url-status=live }}</ref> and the [[Stockholm University]] in Sweden.{{sfn|Frisch|1970|p=415}}

In September 1966 the [[United States Atomic Energy Commission]] jointly awarded the [[Enrico Fermi Award]] to Hahn, Strassmann and Meitner for their discovery of fission. The ceremony was held in the [[Hofburg]] palace in Vienna.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1966/09/24/archives/europeans-receive-fermi-prize-for-nuclear-fission-research.html |access-date=10 June 2020 |title=Europeans Receive Fermi Prize For Nuclear Fission Research |newspaper=The New York Times |date=24 September 1966 |archive-date=10 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200610001139/https://www.nytimes.com/1966/09/24/archives/europeans-receive-fermi-prize-for-nuclear-fission-research.html |url-status=live }}</ref> It was the first time that this prize had been awarded to non-Americans, and the first time it was presented to a woman.{{sfn|Hahn|1966|p=183}} Meitner's diploma bore the words: "For pioneering research in the naturally occurring radioactivities and extensive experimental studies leading to the discovery of fission".<ref>{{cite web |title=Fermi Lise Meitner, 1966 |date=28 December 2010 |publisher=U.S. DOE Office of Science |url=https://science.osti.gov/fermi/Award-Laureates/1960s/meitner |access-date=12 July 2020 |archive-date=12 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200712225418/https://science.osti.gov/fermi/Award-Laureates/1960s/meitner |url-status=live }}</ref> Hahn's diploma was slightly different: "For pioneering research in the naturally occurring radioactivities and extensive experimental studies culminating in the discovery of fission."<ref>{{cite web |title=Fermi Otto Hahn, 1966 |date=28 December 2010 |publisher=U.S. DOE Office of Science |url=https://science.osti.gov/fermi/Award-Laureates/1960s/hahn |access-date=12 July 2020 |archive-date=3 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200803105432/https://science.osti.gov/fermi/Award-Laureates/1960s/hahn |url-status=live }}</ref> Hahn and Strassmann were present, but Meitner was too ill to attend, so Frisch accepted the award on her behalf.{{sfn|Sime|1996|pp=379–380}} [[Glenn Seaborg]], the discoverer of plutonium, presented it to her in the home of Max Perutz in Cambridge on 23 October 1966.{{sfn|Sime|1996|pp=379–380}}

[[File:Lise Meitner Denkmal vor dem Lise-Meitner-Wohnheim in Kaiserslautern2.jpg|thumb|upright|Lise Meitner memorial in front of the Lise Meitner dormitory in [[Kaiserslautern]]]]

After her death in 1968, Meitner received many naming honours. In 1997, element 109 was named [[meitnerium]]. She is the first and so far the only non-mythological woman thus exclusively honoured (since [[curium]] was named after both Marie and [[Pierre Curie]]).<ref name="wapost" /><ref name="hahn-nobel-lecture">{{cite web |title=From the natural transmutations of uranium to its artificial fission. Nobel Lecture. |last=Hahn |first=Otto |date=13 December 1946 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1944/hahn/lecture/ |publisher=Nobel Foundation |access-date=14 October 2020 |archive-date=14 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201014115718/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1944/hahn/lecture/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="otto-hahn-prophysik">{{cite web|title=Otto Hahn&nbsp;– Entdecker der Kernspaltung|author=Hardy, Anne|date=4 March 2004|url=http://www.pro-physik.de/Phy/leadArticle.do?laid=4049|publisher=Pro Physik, Wiley Interscience GmbH|access-date=24 September 2007|language=de|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071012082818/http://www.pro-physik.de/Phy/leadArticle.do?laid=4049|archive-date=12 October 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref> Additional naming honours are the [[Hahn–Meitner-Institut]] in Berlin,<ref>{{cite web |title=Predecessor facility HMI |publisher=Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie |url=https://www.helmholtz-berlin.de/zentrum/forschungszentrum/campus/historie/lise-meitner-campus/index_en.html |access-date=12 July 2020 |archive-date=12 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200712225418/https://www.helmholtz-berlin.de/zentrum/forschungszentrum/campus/historie/lise-meitner-campus/index_en.html |url-status=live }}</ref> craters [[Meitner (lunar crater)|on the Moon]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Planetary Names: Crater, craters: Meitner on Moon |publisher=United States Geological Survey |url=https://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Feature/3807 |access-date=12 July 2020 |archive-date=12 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200712225855/https://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Feature/3807 |url-status=live }}</ref> and [[Meitner (crater on Venus)|Venus]],<ref>{{cite web |title=Planetary Names: Crater, craters: Meitner on Venus |publisher=United States Geological Survey |url=https://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Feature/3808 |access-date=12 July 2020 |archive-date=15 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200715124203/https://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Feature/3808 |url-status=live }}</ref> and the main-belt asteroid [[6999 Meitner]].<ref>{{cite web |title=IAU Minor Planet Center |publisher=International Astronomical Union |url=https://minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?object_id=6999 |access-date=12 July 2020 |archive-date=20 March 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170320052145/http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?object_id=6999 |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2000, the [[European Physical Society]] established the biennial [[Lise Meitner Prize]] for excellent research in nuclear science.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.eps.org/?NPD_prizes_LMeitner |title=EPS Nuclear Physics Division – Lise Meitner Prize |publisher=European Physical Society |access-date=12 December 2015 |archive-date=10 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141010211854/http://www.eps.org/?NPD_prizes_LMeitner |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2006 the "Gothenburg Lise Meitner Award" was established by the [[University of Gothenburg]] and [[Chalmers University of Technology]] in Sweden; it is awarded annually to a scientist who has made a breakthrough in physics.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.chalmers.se/en/centres/gpc/activities/lisemeitner/Pages/default.aspx |title=Gothenburg Lise Meitner Award |publisher=Chalmers University of Technology |access-date=12 December 2015 |archive-date=23 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923202245/http://www.chalmers.se/en/centres/gpc/activities/lisemeitner/Pages/default.aspx |url-status=live }}</ref> In October 2010, the building at the Free University of Berlin that had once housed the KWI for Chemistry, and had been known as the Otto Hahn Building since 1956, was renamed the Hahn-Meitner Building,<ref>{{cite web |first=Viola |last=Neukam |title='More than Just a Name Change': Freie Universität Renames Otto Hahn Building as Hahn-Meitner Building |date=28 October 2010 |url=https://www.fu-berlin.de/en/presse/informationen/fup/2010/fup_10_326/index.html |publisher=Free University of Berlin |access-date=4 June 2020 |archive-date=3 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200803220842/https://www.fu-berlin.de/en/presse/informationen/fup/2010/fup_10_326/index.html |url-status=live }}</ref> and in July 2014 a statue of Meitner was unveiled in the garden of the Humboldt University of Berlin next to similar statues of [[Hermann von&nbsp;Helmholtz]] and [[Max Planck]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.tagesspiegel.de/wissen/lise-meitner-grosse-physikerin-spaete-ehrung/10170792.html |title=Große Physikerin, späte Ehrung |trans-title=Great Physicist, Belated Honour |first=Astrid |last=Herbold |newspaper=[[Der Tagesspiegel]] |date=9 July 2014 |language=de |access-date=14 July 2014 |archive-date=14 July 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714134505/http://www.tagesspiegel.de/wissen/lise-meitner-grosse-physikerin-spaete-ehrung/10170792.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

Schools and streets were named after her in many cities in Austria and Germany,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.hh.schule.de/lmg/lmghp/pmwiki.php?n=Schule.Home|title=Lise Meitner Gymnasium: Hamburg|website=www.hh.schule.de|language=de|publisher=Offenes Hamburger|access-date=5 March 2016|archive-date=28 July 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160728235228/http://www.hh.schule.de/lmg/lmghp/pmwiki.php?n=Schule.Home|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://hp.lise-meitner-gymnasium.de/|title=Lise-Meitner-Gymnasium|website=hp.lise-meitner-gymnasium.de|publisher=LMG Falkensee|language=de|access-date=5 March 2016|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304094513/http://hp.lise-meitner-gymnasium.de/|url-status=live}}</ref> and a short residential street in Bramley, her resting place, is named Meitner Close.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Lise Meitner |url=https://www.bramleypc.co.uk/attachments/article/623/BPM_October2018.pdf |magazine=The Bramley Magazine |date=October 2018 |page=15 |access-date=10 July 2024 |archive-date=9 July 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240709211340/https://www.bramleypc.co.uk/attachments/article/623/BPM_October2018.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> Since 2008 the [[Austrian Physical Society]] and the German Physical Society have organized the [[Lise Meitner Lectures]], a series of annual public talks given by distinguished female physicists,<ref>{{cite web |title=Lise-Meitner Lectures |publisher=German Physical Society |url=https://www.dpg-physik.de/aktivitaeten-und-programme/vortragsreihen/lise-meitner-lectures/lise-meitner-lectures?set_language=en |access-date=12 July 2020 |archive-date=12 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200712230224/https://www.dpg-physik.de/aktivitaeten-und-programme/vortragsreihen/lise-meitner-lectures/lise-meitner-lectures?set_language=en |url-status=live }}</ref> and since 2015 the [[AlbaNova]] University Centre in Stockholm has had an annual [[Lise Meitner Distinguished Lecture]].<ref>{{cite web |title=LiseMeitnerLecture |publisher=Royal Institute of Technology |url=http://www.theophys.kth.se/~egor/LiseMeitnerLecture.html |access-date=12 July 2020 |archive-date=11 June 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160611054853/http://www.theophys.kth.se/~egor/LiseMeitnerLecture.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 2016, the [[Institute of Physics]] in the UK established the [[Meitner Medal]] for public engagement within physics.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.iop.org/about/awards/subject/widening-participation-public-engagement/page_68106.html |title=Physics education and widening participation within it and public engagement within physics |publisher=Institute of Physics |access-date=23 August 2018 |archive-date=24 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180824065910/http://www.iop.org/about/awards/subject/widening-participation-public-engagement/page_68106.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 2017, the [[Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy]] in the United States named a major nuclear energy research program after her.<ref>{{cite web |title=MEITNER: Modeling-Enhanced Innovations Trailblazing Nuclear Energy Reinvigoration |url=https://arpa-e.energy.gov/?q=arpa-e-programs/meitner |publisher=United States Department of Energy |date=20 October 2017 |access-date=14 October 2021 |archive-date=12 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200812160350/https://arpa-e.energy.gov/?q=arpa-e-programs%2Fmeitner |url-status=dead }}</ref> On 6 November 2020, a satellite named after her ([[ÑuSat|ÑuSat 16]] or "Lise", COSPAR 2020-079H) was launched.<ref>{{cite web |title=Post Launch Report |publisher=Satellogic |url=https://mailchi.mp/ace3dfcbde8a/dedicated_launch |access-date=3 March 2023 |archive-date=6 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220706103955/https://mailchi.mp/ace3dfcbde8a/dedicated_launch |url-status=live }}</ref> The [[International Atomic Energy Agency]] named its library<ref>{{Cite web |date=15 July 2016 |title=IAEA Lise Meitner Library |url=https://www.iaea.org/resources/library |access-date=7 January 2024 |publisher=International Atomic Energy Agency |language=en |archive-date=7 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240107122315/https://www.iaea.org/resources/library |url-status=live }}</ref> in her honour and established a programme to "provide early- and mid‑career women professionals with opportunities to participate in a multi-week visiting professional programme and advance their technical and soft skills".<ref>{{Cite web |date=17 February 2023 |title=Lise Meitner Programme |url=https://www.iaea.org/services/key-programmes/lise-meitner-programme |access-date=7 January 2024 |publisher=International Atomic Energy Agency |language=en |archive-date=7 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240107122316/https://www.iaea.org/services/key-programmes/lise-meitner-programme |url-status=live }}</ref>