Isolde Hausser

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Isolde Hausser , maiden name Isolde Ganswindt (born December 7, 1889 in Berlin ; † October 5, 1951 in Heidelberg ) was a German physicist and later head of department at the Kaiser Wilhelm / Max Planck Institute for Medical Research .

Life

She was the daughter of Hermann Ganswindt and his first wife Anna Minna nee Fritsche (1866–1911). After graduating from the Chamisso School in Berlin-Schöneberg in 1909 , she began studying physics , mathematics and philosophy at the University of Berlin , which she completed in 1914 with a doctorate on the generation and reception of short electrical waves .

From 1914 to 1929 she worked as an employee of the research department of Telefunken in Berlin under the direction of Hans Rukop (1883-1958), with whom she published several research papers together. In 1918 she married the physicist Karl Wilhelm Hausser (1887–1933), with whom she had a son, Karl Hermann Hausser (1919–2001). In 1929 she moved to the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, where in 1935 she took over the management of an independent department. The KWI for Medical Research later became the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research . Hausser worked there until her death in 1951.

Isolde Hausser contributed with her work on tube research, the physical principles of radiation therapy , radar technology and radiation research in medicine. So she investigated the effect of ultrasound on malignant tumors.

According to her was Isolde Hausser Street in King Wusterhausen named.

literature

  • Margot Fuchs: Isolde Hausser (1889–1951). Physicist in industry and research . In: Annemarie Haase, Harro Kieser (ed.): Skill, courage and imagination. Portraits of creative women from Central Germany . Böhlau, Weimar et al. 1993, ISBN 3-412-02993-9 , ( Aus Deutschlands Mitte 26), pp. 149–164.
  • Margot Fuchs: Isolde Hausser (December 7, 1889– October 5, 1951). Technical physicist and scientist at the Kaiser Wilhelm / Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg . In: Reports on the history of science . 17, 1994, pp. 201-215, ISSN  0170-6233 .
  • Karl Hausser, Rudolf Frey : 50 years of the Hausser-Vahle curve . In: Acta medicotechnica 29, 1981, No. 1, ISSN  0172-6099 , pp. 33-34.
  • Richard Kuhn :  Hausser, Isolde. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , p. 127 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Marilyn Ogilvie, Joy Harvey (Eds.): The biographical dictionary of women in science. Pioneering lives from ancient times to the mid-20th century . Volume 1: A - K . Routledge, New York et al. 2000, ISBN 0-415-92039-6 , pp. 566-568.
  • Ulrich Schmidt-Rohr : Memories of the prehistory and the founding years of the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics . sn, Heidelberg 1996.
  • Annette Vogt : From the back entrance to the main portal - women scientists in the Kaiser Wilhelm Society . In: Dahlemer Archive Talks 2, 1997, ISSN  1431-6641 , pp. 134-139.
  • 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. 70–72.
  • Siegfrid von Weiher (ed.): Men of radio technology. A collection of 70 life works by German pioneers in radio technology (wireless telegraphy, radar, radio and television) . VDE-Verlag, Berlin et al. 1983, ISBN 3-8007-1314-4 .

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personal data
SURNAME Hausser, Isolde
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ganswindt, Isolde (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 5th October 1951
Place of death Heidelberg