Lise Meitner was the pioneering woman behind nuclear fission. Meitner was a prolific, award-winning physicist, but as a woman born in 1878, it meant some of her biggest discoveries were credited to male scientists. She was the first to pinpoint the atomic phenomenon now known as the Auger effect, but it was credited to Pierre Auger who independently discovered it months after her. Years later when she made a breakthrough in identifying and understanding nuclear fission, her findings were published only under the name of her collaborator, Otto Hahn, who later also received the Nobel Prize for this discovery. While she may have been overlooked for one of the biggest prizes in science, she did receive dozens of scientific awards and honours for her work, including the namesake for chemical element 109 — Meitnerium — as well as the main-belt asteroid 6999 Meitner and craters on the Moon and Venus.