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In 1992, several years after her death, physicists named their 109th element ‘meitnerium’ in honor of Lise Meitner, finally giving her the official recognition she deserved.
Lise Meitner was born in 1878 in a liberal Viennese family. Since the Viennese system of education did not allow girls to enter high school from 1892 to 1901 she had to struggle a lot to get her education. The Viennese government opened high schools for girls in 1899. Her father hired a tutor to prepare her for university entrance when she was 21 years old. In these two years she completed 8 years' worth of school syllabus.