Gerda Laski

Gerda Laski (born June 4, 1893 in Vienna , † November 24, 1928 in Berlin ) was an Austrian physicist and later head of department at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Fiber Chemistry .

Life

After graduating from the private girls' upper secondary school in Vienna in 1913, she began studying natural sciences , particularly physics , at the University of Vienna . In 1917 she received her doctorate at the University of Vienna on "Determining the size of submicroscopic particles from optical and mechanical effects". From 1918 to 1919 she worked as an assistant at the University of Göttingen and from 1920 at the Physics Institute of the University of Berlin . From 1924/25 to 1926/27 she was the head of the "Ultra Red Department" at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Fiber Chemistry in Berlin-Dahlem , but this was dissolved due to a lack of funding. At the Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt she was employed as a “volunteer employee” from the end of 1927 in order to set up an ultra-research laboratory in 1928. Until her death after a serious illness, in 1927 and 1928 she received a monthly grant from the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics .

Gerda Laski dealt with ultra- red research , including the investigation of selected chemical substances using ultra-red radiation, i.e. an area of ​​application.

literature

• Cornelia Denz , Annette Vogt: Einstein's colleagues - physicists yesterday & today . Competence Center Technology Diversity Equal Opportunities eV , Bielefeld 2005, ISBN 3-933476-08-9 , pp. 15-17.
• David Globig: The KWI for Silicate Research. Foundation and development in the Weimar Republic . Master's thesis Univ. Munich 1994, p. 71, (unpublished).
• Marilyn Ogilvie, Joy Harvey (Eds.): The biographical dictionary of women in science. Pioneering lives from ancient times to the mid-20th century . Volume 1: L - Z . Routledge, New York et al. 2000, ISBN 0-415-92040-X , p. 748.
• Annette Vogt : The first career steps - female physicists in the Berlin area between 1900 and 1945 . In: Elisabeth Dickmann et al. (Ed.): Barriers and careers. The beginnings of women's studies in Germany . Documentation volume of the conference "100 Years of Women in Science" in February 1997 at the University of Bremen. Trafo-Verlag Weist, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89626-178-9 , ( series of publications by the Hedwig Hintze Institute Bremen 5), pp. 214-218.
• Annette Vogt: From the back entrance to the main portal? Lise Meitner and her colleagues at the Berlin University and in the Kaiser Wilhelm Society . Steiner, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-515-08881-7 , ( Pallas Athene 17).
• Annette Vogt: Scientists in Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes. A - Z . 2nd expanded edition. Archive for the history of the Max Planck Society, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-927579-12-5 , ( publications from the archive for the history of the Max Planck Society 12), pp. 107-108.

Web links

• Literature by and about Gerda Laski in the catalog of the German National Library