Two photo portraits of previous members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (RSAS) have been added to the members’ room at the Academy. These are of the physicist Lise Meitner (1878–1968) FMRSAS 826 (1945) & MRSAS 968 (1951). And the astronomer Aina Elvius (1917–2019) MRSAS 1154 (1975). The portrait of Meitner was taken by her niece, the famous portrait photographer Lotte Meitner Graf (1899–1973) and has not previously been reproduced.
Last year, a commemorative plaque was donated to RSAS by the American Chemical Society, which recognises the groundbreaking article on nuclear fission, which Lise Meitner and her nephew Otto Robert Frisch published in Nature in 1939.
