Iris Runge

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Iris Anna Runge (born June 1, 1888 in Hanover , † January 27, 1966 in Ulm ) was a German applied mathematician and physicist.

life and work

Iris Runge was the oldest of six children of the mathematician Carl Runge . From 1907 she studied physics, mathematics and geography at the University of Göttingen with the aim of becoming a teacher. Among other things, she heard from her father and spent a semester at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich with Arnold Sommerfeld , which led to a first publication. After the exam (senior teacher examination) in 1912, she taught at various schools (Lyzeum Göttingen, Oberlyzeum Kippenberg near Bremen), but went back to the university in 1918 to study chemistry, where she took the supplementary examination for teaching in 1920 and did her doctorate in 1921 with Gustav Tammann became ( via diffusion in the solid state ). In the period of upheaval after the First World War, she was also active in the election campaign for the SPD, which at the time enforced women's suffrage. She did not join the party until 1929. In 1920 she went to the Schloss Salem School as a teacher .

In 1923 she gave up teaching and worked at Osram as an industrial mathematician. One of her colleagues there was Ellen Lax, who received her doctorate under Walther Nernst in 1919 . There she dealt with the company's products (incandescent lamps, radio tubes), among other things, with heat conduction problems, electron emission in tubes and statistics for quality control in mass production, about which she co-authored a standard textbook at the time. In 1929 she was appointed senior civil servant. From 1929 she was in the broadcasting tubes department and, after the department was incorporated into Telefunken, moved to the new company in 1939 until the laboratory was dissolved in 1945.

After 1945 she taught at the adult education center in Spandau and was an assistant at the Technical University of Berlin . In 1947 she completed her habilitation at the Humboldt University of Berlin (inaugural lecture on the noise of electron tubes ), whereby she was waived the habilitation thesis on the basis of her published work. In 1947 she received a teaching post and until 1949 was assistant to Friedrich Possible at the chair for theoretical physics at Humboldt University . In November 1949 she was appointed lecturer and in July 1950 she became a professor with a teaching position. At that time she was one of three professors in the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences. From March 1949 she worked part-time for Telefunken again. In 1952 she retired from Humboldt University, where she lectured on theoretical physics until the summer semester of 1952. She lived in West Berlin until 1965 and then moved to live with her brother in Ulm.

She translated the book by Richard Courant (who was married to one of her sisters) and Herbert Robbins , What Is Mathematics ?, and wrote a biography of her father.

Fonts

  • with Richard Becker , Hubert C. Plaut Applications of Mathematical Statistics to Problems of Mass Production , Springer Verlag 1927
  • Carl Runge and his scientific work . Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1949 (special print from Abh. Akad. Wiss. Göttingen)

literature

  • Kathrin Randl Prof. Dr. Iris Runge (1888-1966) , in file inspection , Lit Verlag 2012
  • Renate Tobies Iris Runge. A Life at the Crossroads of Mathematics, Science and Industry , Birkhäuser 2012 (German edition Tomorrow I would like to calculate 100 wonderful things again. Iris Runge at Osram and Telefunken , Boethius 61, Franz Steiner Verlag 2010)
  • Renate Tobies:  Runge, Iris Anna. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 260 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ At that time still as a student, only in 1908/9 women were able to study regularly at Prussian universities.
  2. ↑ Arnold Sommerfeld, Iris Runge Applications of Vector Calculation on the Fundamentals of Geometric Optics , Annalen der Physik, Volume 340, 1911, pp. 277–298.
  3. ↑ As before. As a student, she was Leonard Nelson’s private assistant .
  4. ^ Next to Elisabeth Schiemann and Katharina Boll-Dornberger .
  5. ↑ Carl Runge and his scientific work .
personal data
SURNAME Runge, Iris
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Runge, Iris Anna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician and physicist
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 1966
Place of death Ulm