Autographed letter card
Stockholm, November 17th 1953
Lise Meitner (1878-1968) – Austrian-Swedish nuclear physicist
Letter to the American physicist Isidor Isaak Rabi in New York with a thank-you note
Letter card, landscape format, both pages written on
With envelope, handwritten address
Enclosed: Autographed letter from physician Otto Robert Frisch to Isaak Rabi
Sheet size: 17,7 x 13,9 cm und 8,5 x 13,5 cm
In very fine condition

This letter card was written on November 17th in 1953 at Stockholm. Physicist Lise Meitner thanked her American colleague Isidor Isaak Rabi for his congratulations on her 75th birthday.



‘…Thank you so much for your very kind letters. How nice of you to remember my birthday!

I recall with great pleasure your visit in Stockholm, when I met you and Stern, not to mention the nice hours I spent in your charming home with your family.

There is next to no chance for me to come to the States, but I hope that we can meet somewhere in Europe…’



The landscape format autographed letter card is written on both pages and comes with the original envelope. The card measures 8,5 x 13,5 cm . It is in very fine condition.



Enclosed is an autographed letter by physicist Otto Robert Frisch to Isaak Rabi. Frisch asked Rabi to send birthday greeting to Lise Meitner. The single sheet is written on the front page and has a printed header. It was written on October 23th in 1953.



‘…Lise Meitner will be 75 on Nov 7th. Each letter from a colleague will help dispel the feeling that she is old and forgotten. A letter from the Am. Phys. Soc. would give her special pleasure (if it is no too late now for that). / Perhaps you could tell other people who you feel might wish to write her … I have also written to F. Bloch and Weisskopf…‘



Lise Meitner (1878-1968)

Austrian-Swedish nuclear physicist Lise Meitner together with Otto Frisch worked on the theoretical understanding of the nuclear fission. This was discovered recently by Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann.