Iris Zschokke

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Iris Zschokke-Gränacher (born on June 21, 1933 as Iris Gränacher in Basel ) is a Swiss physicist . She was the first female physics professor at the University of Basel .

Life

Iris Zschokke was born in Basel in 1933 and grew up in Riehen . She studied physics, mathematics and astronomy at the Universities of Basel and Geneva . In 1960 she did her doctorate in experimental physics with Paul Huber in Basel . In 1974 she was the first woman to take up a physics professorship at the University of Basel and until 1996 was the chair of applied physics . Her research dealt with organic semiconductors , nonlinear optics , electrical and optical properties of molecular crystals and solid solutions . She published about 100 articles in professional journals . From 1977 to 1979 she was Vice President and from 1979 to 1981 President of the Swiss Physical Society . From 1997 to 2002 she was a member of the ETH Board , from 1988 to 1992 President of the "Coordination Commission for University Issues" of the Education Department of the Canton of Basel-Stadt , from 1993 to 1996 President of Department IV for National Research Programs (NFP) / Priority Programs (SPP, today “National Research Priorities ”) of the Swiss National Science Foundation and from 2000 to 2003 President of the PRODEX Program Commission of the Federal Commission for Space Issues . Zschokke was married to Andres Hanspeter Zschokke from 1965 until his death in 2015.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Zschokke-Gränacher, Iris (1933 -). In: Base de données des élites suisses au XXe s. University of Lausanne , accessed November 17, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e personal description. Department of Physics at the University of Basel, accessed on November 17, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Former board members. Swiss Physical Society, accessed on November 17, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Zschokke, Iris
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zschokke-Gränacher, Iris (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss physicist
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel