Elizabeth Roboz

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Elizabeth Roboz (1948)

Elizabeth Roboz (born 1904 in Hungary ; † January 9, 1995 in Berkeley , California ) was an American neurochemist.

Life

The daughter of a rabbi and teacher grew up in the Transylvanian Szászváros . After her father's death in 1914, her mother and six children moved to Nyíregyháza .

Elisabeth Roboz studied physics and chemistry in Vienna, worked on plant biochemistry in Zellner's laboratory and received her doctorate in 1928. Back in Hungary, she was asked to repeat the exam for confirmation by the University of Budapest . She set up a laboratory for plant nutrition for a farm .

As an agricultural specialist, she received a US visa with which she could emigrate to the USA in 1939/40, where she first set up a plant nutrition laboratory for a potato or chemical factory in Stockton, CA.

In 1942 Roboz started at the California Institute of Technology as an assistant to Arie Jan Haagen-Smit . She studied aloe vera and was appointed research associate . Since women are not appointed professors at Cal Tec, she accepted a position as associate professor at the University of Wyoming in 1945 , where she worked as a research chemist at the College of Engineering. 1948–1952 she went to Stanford University as a research associate . She lived in Palo Alto. At the suggestion of George Pólya , she called Frieda and Hans Albert Einstein , with whom she became friends.

From 1952 to 1958 she taught biochemistry to medical students at Georgetown University and lectured at the Veterans Administration Hospital . During that time she studied neurochemistry and became interested in multiple sclerosis, which she did research at the National Institutes of Health. In 1958 she was appointed associate professor of medicine at Stanford University, where she taught neurochemistry. The research group she led was supported by the NIH and later by the National Science Foundation.

After Frieda Einstein's death, Roboz married Hans Albert († 1973) in May 1959. When Mileva Marić, who died in Zurich in 1948, was liquidating her apartment, Frieda discovered her old love letters and wanted to publish the booklet Einstein's Letters to his Family in the 1950s , which Otto Nathan foiled legally. Elizabeth put the 500 love letters in a locker.

To work closer to her family, she moved to the University of California in San Francisco. She continued her research and taught neurochemistry. From 1961 to 1962 she went to Bangkok University as a SEATO lecturer. She examined the myelin of nerve fibers and discovered the myelin protein.

After the death of her husband, she completed Hans Albert Einstein: Reminiscences of His Life and Our Life Together in 1991 , with Djordje Krstić's appendix Mileva Einstein-Marić being criticized by Allen Esterson. Elizabeth Roboz Einstein has contributed to over 90 publications.

Elizabeth Roboz died in Berkeley on January 9, 1995 .

Publications

  • Proteins Of The Brain and CSF In Health and Disease ; 1982
  • Special issue dedicated to Elizabeth Roboz-Einstein ; 1984
  • Species specificity in response to tryptophan modified encephalitogen
  • Determination of gamma globulin in the cerebrospinal fluid by quantitative chromatography
  • Suppression of experimental allergic encephalomyelitis by chemically modified encephalitogen
  • Quantitative determination of? -Globulin in human sera by column chromatography
  • Belki mozga i spinnomozgovoj židkosti v norm i patologii ; 1988

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dr. Elizabeth Roboz on uwind.mpiwg-berlin.mpg
  2. ^ Joyce Harvey, Marilyn Ogilvie, The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: Pioneering Lives from Ancient Times to the Mid-20th Century . Taylor & Francis US, 2000, ISBN 0-203-80145-8 , pp. 410 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  3. ↑ Max Planck Institute: Biography Elisabeth (Elizabeth) Roboz ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed May 8, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / uwind.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
  4. ↑ Elizabeth Roboz Einstein: Hans Albert Einstein: Reminiscences of his life and our life together . Iowa City, Iowa: Iowa Institute of Hydraulic Research, University of Iowa, 1991, ISBN 978-0874140835 .
  5. ↑ The New York Times: Two-decade Path of Einstein papers on nytimes.com (English)
  6. ↑ Allen Esterson: Critique of Dord Krstić's “Appendix” (1991) on esterson.org (English)
personal data
SURNAME Roboz, Elizabeth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Einstein, Elizabeth Roboz (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American neurochemist
DATE OF BIRTH 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Hungary
DATE OF DEATH January 9, 1995
Place of death Berkeley , California