1878: birth in Vienna

1906: 2nd Austrian woman to obtain a doctorate in physics

1907: beginning of the duo she will form for several decades with the chemist Otto Hahn (introduced to the wonders of radioactivity by Rutherford in Montreal). The shy physicist and the extroverted chemist are perfectly complementary.. They will work together for 31 years and will remain friends all their lives.

1908: first meeting with Ernest Rutherford, when he made a trip to Germany and the Netherlands after receiving his Nobel Prize in Stockholm .

1923: discovery of the Auger effect, named in honor of Pierre Auger, a Frenchman who made the same observation as Lise Meitner, but two years after her.

1933: she is one of three women present in Brussels at the seventh Solvay physics congress, with Marie Curie and Irène Joliot-Curie.

1938: discovery of nuclear fission, with the help of Otto Hahn, Fritz Strassmann and Otto Frisch

1946: the 1944 Nobel Prize in chemistry is awarded to salute the discovery of fission to... Otto Hahn; Lise Meitner, exiled in Sweden since 1938 and "forgotten" by the Nobel committee, is in the room when her former collaborator and friend speaks before the King of Sweden. In his speech Hahn does not mention Meitner once. And he will never recognize, during the 20 years he has left to live, the crucial role she played in this discovery.

1968: Lise Meitner dies in Cambridge (three months after Otto Hahn; they were also born four months apart, Lise being the older of the two).