Agnes Pockels
Agnes Luise Wilhelmine Pockels (born February 14, 1862 in Venice , † November 21, 1935 in Braunschweig ) was a German physical chemist and sister of Friedrich Pockels .
life and work
The officer's daughter attended the municipal high school for girls in Braunschweig. She decided not to study in order to take on domestic activities and to take care of her parents, who were in poor health after staying in malaria regions in Italy. Nevertheless, as an autodidact, Pockels, who was interested in natural science, discovered important fundamentals in the field of surface and interfacial tension . In 1882 she invented the " slide channel ", which is still used today, for examining the surfaces of liquids.
Since her research results were initially disregarded by German scientists, she communicated them to the English physicist and later Nobel Prize winner John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh , in 1891 , who arranged for their immediate publication (e.g. in the journal Nature ) what Agnes Pockels and her work in Germany immediately made known. At the Physics Institute in Braunschweig, she then received job opportunities and also invitations from other cities.
Honors and honors
On 27. January 1932 Agnes Pockels was from the Technical University Braunschweig for their pioneering research on surface chemistry as the first woman the honorary doctorate Dr. Ing. Hc awarded.
In Munich-Moosach the Agnes-Pockels-Bogen, in Hanau -Wolfgang the Agnes-Pockels-Straße is named after her.
In Braunschweig , Pockelsstrasse in the area of what is now the Technical University of Braunschweig Carolo-Wilhelmina is not named after Agnes Pockels, but after Wilhelm Pockels .
The Technical University of Braunschweig has been awarding the Agnes Pockels Medal since 1992 . At the Institute for Chemistry there is the Agnes Pockels Laboratory for schoolchildren.
literature
- Working group other history (ed.): Braunschweiger women. Yesterday and today. Six walks. Braunschweig 2002, ISBN 3-929778-08-4 , pp. 111-112.
- Gabriele Armenat (ed.): Women from Braunschweig. City Library, Braunschweig 1991, pp. 81-85 OCLC 64263113 .
- Gabriele Beisswanger: Agnes Pockels (1862–1935) and surface chemistry , in: Chemistry in our time 1991 , 25 , 97–101; doi : 10.1002 / ciuz.19910250206 .
- Gabriele Beisswanger: Pockels, Agnes Luise Wilhelmine. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 555 ( digitized version ).
- Regina Blume: Agnes Luise Wilhelmine Pockels (1862–1935). Physicist (sic!) And chemist. In: Working group other history (ed.): Braunschweiger personalities of the 20th century. döringDRUCK, Braunschweig 2012. ISBN 978-3-925268-42-7 , pp. 188–191.
- Norman-Mathias Pingel: Pockels, Agnes. In: Luitgard Camerer , Manfred Garzmann , Wolf-Dieter Schuegraf (eds.): Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon . Joh. Heinr. Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1992, ISBN 3-926701-14-5 , p. 181 .
- Birgit Pohl: Pockels, Agnes Wilhelme Luise, Dr. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 462-463 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Agnes Pockels in the catalog of the German National Library
- Agnes Pockels - Making History at the Kitchen Sink ausf. Biography, photo, 37 citations, accessed July 31, 2011
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pockels, Agnes |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pockels, Agnes Luise Wilhelmine (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 14, 1862 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Venice |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 21, 1935 |
| Place of death | Braunschweig |