The Lise Meitner Lectures (LML) are a series of public lectures in honour of

Lise Meitner Elise Meitner ( , ; 7 November 1878 – 27 October 1968) was an Austrian-Swedish physicist who was one of those responsible for the discovery of the element protactinium and nuclear fission. While working at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute on rad ...

. The lectures are organized jointly by the

German Physical Society The German Physical Society (German: , DPG) is the oldest organisation of physicists. The DPG's worldwide membership is cited as 60,547, as of 2019, making it the largest physics society in the world. It holds an annual conference () and multiple ...

and the

Austrian Physical Society The Austrian Physical Society (german: Österreichische Physikalische Gesellschaft) is the national physical society of Austria. History Until 1938, Austrian physicists were part of the German Physical Society. On 13 December 1950, it was decide ...

, with the intention to showcase outstanding female scientists in

physics Physics is the natural science that studies matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge which r ...

or related fields. The annual lecture series was launched in 2008, when Lise Meitner's birthday celebrated its 130th anniversary. In October 2008, the Lise Meitner Lecture was held in Vienna and Berlin with a
accompanying exhibition
The annual lecture series not only aims at increasing the visibility of successful female researchers, but also at encouraging girls and young women towards careers in physics.

Awardees

* 2023: Donna Strickland, "Generating High-Intensity, Ultrashort Optical Pulses" * 2022:

Viola Priesemann Viola Priesemann (born 28 April 1982) is a German physicist. One of her research priorities is to explore how the human brain organizes its neuronal capacities, to enable meaningful information processing. Education and career Viola Priesem ...

, "Learning in living neuronal networks" (''Lernen in lebenden neuronalen Netzwerken'') * 2021: Claudia Draxl, "Quantum-based Materials Modeling and Artificial Intelligence for Tackling Societal Challenges" * 2019:

Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop is a professor of physics at the University of Queensland and an Officer of the Order of Australia. She has led pioneering research in atom optics, laser micro-manipulation using optical tweezers, laser enhanced ionis ...

, "Sculpted light in nano- and microsystems" * 2017/18:

Nicola Spaldin Nicola Ann Spaldin (born 1969)Nicola Spaldin's FRS is Professor of Materials Theory at ETH Zurich, known for her pioneering research on multiferroics. Education and early life A native of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England, Spaldin earned a ...

, "New materials for a new age" (DPG 2018/ÖPG 2017) * 2017/18:

Johanna Stachel Johanna Barbara Stachel (born 3 December 1954 in Munich) is a German nuclear physicist. She is a professor in experimental physics at the University of Heidelberg (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg). Stachel is a former president of the Ge ...

, "Erforschung von Urknallmaterie an der Weltmaschine LHC" (DPG 2017/ÖPG 2018) * 2016:

Petra Schwille Petra Schwille (born 25 January 1968 in Sindelfingen) is a German professor and a researcher in the area of biophysics. Since 2011, she has been a director of the Department of Cellular and Molecular Biophysics at the Max Planck Institute for Bi ...

, "Ist Leben konstruierbar?" * 2015: Cornelia Denz, "Material in neuem Licht - wie maßgeschneidertes Licht Materie strukturieren und anordnen kann" * 2014:

Felicitas Pauss Felicitas Pauss is an Austrian physicist. She obtained her PhD, Berechnung von Neutron-Proton Polarisationsobservablen ("Calculation of neutron/proton polarization observables"), from University of Graz, Austria, in 1976. Pauss has published alm ...

, "Das Higgs-Teilchen: Unsichtbares sichtbar und Unmögliches möglich machen" * 2013:

Jocelyn Bell Burnell Dame Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell (; Bell; born 15 July 1943) is an astrophysicist from Northern Ireland who, as a postgraduate student, discovered the first radio pulsars in 1967. The discovery eventually earned the Nobel Prize in Physics in ...

, "Pulsars and extreme physics" * 2012:

Renate Loll Renate Loll (born 19 June 1962, Aachen) is a Professor in Theoretical Physics at the Institute for Mathematics, Astrophysics and Particle Physics of the Radboud University in Nijmegen, Netherlands. She previously worked at the Institute for Th ...

, "More than meets the eye: probing the Planckian structure of spacetime" * 2010:

Anna Frebel Anna Frebel (born 1980 in Berlin) is a German astronomer working on discovering the oldest stars in the universe. Career Anna Frebel grew up in Göttingen, Germany. After finishing high school, she began studying physics in Freiburg im Brei ...

, "Die ältesten Sterne im Universum und die chemische Entwicklung unserer Galaxie" * 2009: Cecilia Jarlskog, "Symmetries – exact and broken" * 2008:

Mildred Dresselhaus Mildred Dresselhaus''Mildred Dresselhaus'' was elected in 1974

, "Why are we so excited about nano-carbons?"

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Exhibition catalog Lise Meitner Lecture 2008
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Awardees

See also

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