Lise is a German-French short form of Elisabeth. **Lise Meitner (1878-1968)** was the **Austrian-Swedish physicist** who, in 1938, **with her nephew Otto Frisch first interpreted Otto Hahn's experimental results as nuclear fission** — coining the term. **Hahn alone received the 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry** for the discovery; Meitner's exclusion remains one of the most notorious oversights in Nobel history. **Element 109, *Meitnerium*, is named after her** — and a 2008 movie *Lise Meitner* dramatized her story.
Refused to work on the Manhattan Project, saying: "I will have nothing to do with a bomb."
Lise reduces to eight — the number of discoverer of nuclear fission.