A renaming proposal: "The Auger–Meitner effect".

We are writing to propose that the Auger effect be renamed the Auger-Meitner effect to recognize Lise Meitner's contribution to it. When an electron from an atom's inner shell is ejected - for example, by UV radiation or nuclear beta decay - an electron from a higher energy level will drop into the vacancy and emit a photon or eject another electron. Again, in 1923 Meitner wrote that "the primary I i -rays eject outer electrons from the daughter atom, which excites the K I i radiation, which in turn ejects I L i -, I M i - or I N i -electrons from the same atom."[2] She also pointed to the possibility that radiationless transitions could account for the ejection of orbital electrons during beta decay. [Extracted from the article]

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