It happened on NOVEMBER 7

1867
Marie Curie was born in Warsaw. A scientist, she won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903, together with her husband Pierre Curie and Henri Bequerel, for their joint research on the radiation phenomena. In 1911, she won a second Nobel Prize, this time in chemistry, for her discovery of radium and polonium. She died on July 4, 1934.
1878
Lise Meitner was born in Vienna. A physicist and student of Max Planck, she was forced to leave Germany due to her Jewish heritage. After briefly residing in Holland and Denmark, she settled in Sweden. She performed research in nuclear physics, reproducing experiments that Enrico Fermi had carried out in Rome on the production of transuranic elements. She also contributed to the discovery of uranium fission. She worked with Otto Hahn who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1944. Element 109 was named meitnerium, after her.

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