Edith Alice Müller
Edith Alice Müller (born February 5, 1918 in Madrid , † July 24, 1995 in Spain ) was a Swiss astronomer .
Edith Müller attended the German School in Madrid from 1924 to 1936. She then studied mathematics at the ETH Zurich , where she received her doctorate in 1943 under Andreas Speiser on the geometry of the ornaments in the Alhambra (group theoretical and structural analysis of the Moorish ornaments from the Alhambra in Granada). Then she turned to astronomy. From 1946 to 1951 she was at the observatory in Zurich, from 1952 to 1954 at the observatory in Ann Arbor in Michigan, 1954/55 at the observatory in Basel and from 1955 to 1962 again at the observatory in Ann Arbor. In 1962 she became an assistant professor at the University of Neuchâtel and in 1965 an associate professor. She became a full professor at the University of Geneva in 1972 . In 1983 she retired. From 1976 to 1979 she was Secretary General of the International Astronomical Union (IAU). She died of a heart attack.
She dealt with the structure and chemical composition of the solar atmosphere.
In 1997 the asteroid (7265) Edithmüller was named after her.
literature
- Immo Appenzeller , Yves Chmielewski, Jean-Claude Pecker, Ramiro de la Reza, Gustav Tammann, Patrick Arthur Wayman (eds.): Remembering Edith Alice Müller. Springer, 1998. ISBN 978-0-7923-4789-7
- Christine Riedtmann , Paths of Women: Mathematicians in Switzerland, in: Bruno Colbois, Christine Riedtmann, VolkerSchroeder: mathch / 100. Swiss Mathematical Society 1910–2010, European Mathematical Society, 2010, online .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Edith Alice Müller in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Müller, Edith Alice |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss astronomer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 5, 1918 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Madrid |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 24, 1995 |
| Place of death | Spain |