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Lise Meitner:

Discovered Uranium Fission along with Fritz Strassmann and Otto Hahn Studied Beta Decay Studied Isomerism Performed first studies on Protactinium-231

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William Roentgen

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Andrei Sakharov

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Here are some other interesting firsts that Wu had.

First physics professor at Princeton. Princeton woman to graduate with honors from Princeton graduate school. First woman president of the American Physical Society. First Chinese-American to become involved in the US National Academy of Sciences. First person to receive a Wolf Prize, which she was awarded for in physics.

Hideki Yukawa

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