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Reviewer: Hog Farm (talk · contribs) 04:43, 13 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]


This one's of decent length, I'll try to see if I can get through it in one chunk or not.

Lead
Education
  • "Women were not allowed to attend public institutions of higher education in Vienna until 1897, and she completed her final year in 1892" - Her final year of what in 1892? Evidently not higher education, as that wasn't allowed until 5 years after she completed her last year.
    checkY added "of school". Hawkeye7 (discuss) 01:49, 14 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • " In July 1901 the girls sat and external examination at the Akademisches Gymnasium." - This just doesn't read right to me.
    checkY Deleted "d". Hawkeye7 (discuss) 01:49, 14 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Friedrich Wilhelm University
World War I
  • "Meanwhile, she completed the both work on the beta ray spectrum that she had begun before the war with Hahn and Baeyer, and her own study of the uranium decay chain" - Does the first "the" add anything to this? It doesn't in the variant of English I speak.
    checkY Should be "both the" Hawkeye7 (discuss) 01:49, 14 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • "not only Hahn but most of the students, laboratory assistants and technicians had been called up, so Meitner had to" - Not everyone's gonna know that called up here means called to active military service
    Suggestions welcome. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 01:49, 14 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • "In February, Meitner extracted 2 grams of silicon dioxide (SiO2) from 21 grams of pitchblende. She set 1.5 grams aside and added a tantalum pentafluoride (TaF5) carrier to the other 0.5 grams," - For this and the other weight measurements, use the {{convert}} template to provide conversions to ounces. I'm a reasonably well-educated American, and I have only a foggy idea of what an ounce generally amounts to
    That's because there are multiple types of ounce. In this case, the conversion to US customary would be to drams. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 01:49, 14 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • "The export of uranium was forbidden due to wartime restrictions, but" - So by export, are you meaning export from Austria into Germany?
    checkY Yes. added "from Austria". Hawkeye7 (discuss) 01:49, 14 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Beta radiation
Escape from Germany
Later life
  • "For her friends in Sweden, Siegbahn's obstruction of Meitner's Nobel Prize was the final straw" - it's mentioned that Swedish scientists stopped her from getting it, but not that Siegbahn specifically was involved
References
Infobox
  • All three of her doctoral students are only mentioned there and need cited
    Commented them out for the moment. Will have to look them up.
  • Ditto for the other students
  • You list Exner as her advisor, but wasn't Benndorf involved, too?
    checkY Yes, Added. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 01:49, 14 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • You say she was an Austrian citizen until 1949, but didn't she lose it in 1938?
    She became a German citizen. But Meitner never claimed German citizenship, and travelled on her Austrian passport. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 01:49, 14 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

That's it from me. Hog Farm Bacon 00:15, 14 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, so I think this one meets the GA criteria as is. I also think it's pretty close to the A-Class requirements, although I'd have some additional comments at that level, mostly in the way of the commented-out students and a bit of prose polishing. Good work. Passing. Hog Farm Bacon 01:55, 14 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]