Eva Ramstedt

Eva Julia Augusta Ramstedt (born September 15, 1879 in Stockholm ; † September 11, 1974 there ) was a Swedish physicist . She was the daughter of the politician Johan Ramstedt .

biography

Ramstedt attended high school in her hometown and then studied physics at Uppsala University . There she joined the female student association, whose spokesperson she was temporarily. She was still one of the women who founded the Association of Academic Women in 1904. Ramstedt defended her dissertation on the behavior of stretched liquids in 1910. Then she moved to Paris , where she got an insight into radioactive processes from Marie Curie .

Then Ramstedt was employed by the physics department of the Nobel Institute, where she took part in an expedition to Jämtland to see a solar eclipse . During this event, she studied the changes in air electricity . In 1915, Ramstedt became the first woman to be appointed professor at Stockholm University (now Stockholm University ), where she taught radiology . However, a more extensive career as a professor did not correspond to the zeitgeist. In the following years she took on a number of other teaching positions at educational institutions in her city.

Ramstedt took an active part in the women's rights movement, z. B. through membership of the International Federation of University Women . However, she was not a leading women's rights activist.

In addition to Marie Curie, Ramstedt exchanged letters with Lise Meitner , Ellen Gleditsch and other physicists.

Selected Works

• Contributions to the knowledge of the behavior of stretched liquids (1908)
• On the activity of the undissociated molecule in ester catalysis (1915)
• Radioactivity och atomlära (1921)
• Marie Curie och radium (1932)
• Atomomvandlingar (1941)

swell

• Hjördis Levin: Eva JA Ramstedt . In: Svenskt biografiskt lexikon . tape 29 , 1995, pp. 647 (Swedish, Eva JA Ramstedt ).