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Great Lives: Series 20

Great Lives: Episode 6: Lise Meitner

Lise Meitner

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Episode 6: Lise Meitner

BBC Radio 4 - Great Lives, Lise Meitner

Jenny Agutter champions the life and work of pioneering Austrian physicist Lise Meitner.

4 Extra Debut. Actor Jenny Agutter nominates Austrian physicist Lise Meitner. With Matthew Parris and science historian Jeff Hughes. From January 2010.

Matthew Parris presents the biographical series in which his guests choose someone who has inspired their lives.

Actress Jenny Agutter champions the life and work of pioneering Austrian physicist Lise Meitner, one of the scientists responsible for the discovery of nuclear fission.

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