Franziska Seidl

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Franziska Seidl (born Vicari; born July 1, 1892 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; † June 14, 1983 ibid.) Was an Austrian physicist.

Life

Franziska Seidl, the daughter of a businessman, actually had a musical education, as it was not thought that she would be employed in her life. In 1911, at the age of 19, she married the middle school teacher Wenzel Seidl from Budweis , who was eleven years her senior . They both moved to Mährisch-Weißkirchen , where he taught physics and mathematics at the state high school.

In the First World War, her husband was conscripted and fell in 1916 at the Isonzo . After the war, she returned to Vienna as a Czech citizen to take up her husband 's legacy .

So she made immediately after the war, the Matura and studied physics as a main subject, as well as mathematics and chemistry at the University of Vienna . In 1923 she completed her doctorate after eight semesters with Ernst Lecher .

From 1923 she was an assistant assistant, one year later as an assistant. In 1933 she qualified as a professor for experimental physics and from then on gave lectures and was responsible for training physics teachers.

After the Second World War she took over the interim management of the I. Physikalisches Institut, where she also gave lectures during the war. She stayed in charge until Professor Felix Ehrenhaft returned from emigration. In 1958 she became an associate professor and in 1963 a full professor.

Her research areas were:

She was one of the first to make experiments in the field of ultrasound, including at the Siemens laboratory. Her training in music was very beneficial in her research in acoustics and later also in ultrasound. Their research results still form the basis for the use of ultrasound in materials testing, but also in medicine.

One of her most important inventions is the membrane-free telephone , for which she also acquired the patent .

In addition to her work as a researcher, she was also the president of the Association for the Promotion of Physics and Chemistry Education.

In 2018, Franziska-Seidl-Strasse in Vienna- Donaustadt (22nd district) was named after her.

literature

  • Brigitte Bishop: Seidl, Franziska. In: Brigitta Keintzel, Ilse Korotin (ed.): Scientists in and from Austria. Life - work - work. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2002, ISBN 3-205-99467-1 , pp. 678–681.

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personal data
SURNAME Seidl, Franziska
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vicari, Franziska
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian physicist
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH June 14, 1983
Place of death Vienna