Mona Spiegel-Adolf

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Anna Simona Spiegel-Adolf (born February 23, 1893 in Vienna ; † December 12, 1983 ) was an Austrian -American physician and chemist.

Life

Mona Spiegel-Adolf was the daughter of the lawyer Jacques Adolf. Her mother was the daughter of the Austrian mathematician Simon Spitzer (1826–1887). The primary school and most of the middle school was taught by Spiegel-Adolf at home. After graduating from high school, she studied medicine at the University of Vienna . Towards the end of the First World War, her studies were interrupted by a service in the hospital. During her studies, she worked at the Institute for Histology and Bacteriology and at the Institute for Applied Medicinal Chemistry in Vienna. While studying medicine, she met Ernest Adolf Spiegel , whom she married in 1925.

At the end of 1918 she received her doctorate in medicine in Vienna. In the following years she researched and worked in various pathological institutes. For example in the pathology department of the Rudolfstiftung hospital and at the neurological university institute. In addition, she did internships in applied and medicinal chemistry. From 1923 she was an unpaid assistant at the university laboratory for physical-chemical biology and also worked at times in the laboratory for light biology and light pathology at the Physiological Institute of the University of Vienna and at the Serotherapeutic Institute.

In 1931 Spiegel-Adolf was the second woman to receive her habilitation in medicine in Vienna, in the same year she was appointed professor at Temple University in Philadelphia , where she headed the Institute for Physical and Colloid Chemistry until she retired in 1966 .

Her husband had gone to Temple University a year earlier. She kept her assistant position in Vienna, although she repeatedly had to take leave of absence from her obligation to attend lectures in the USA. Spiegel-Adolf was persecuted under the rule of National Socialism, in 1938 her Venia legendi was revoked and she was expelled from the University of Vienna. So she stayed in the United States, which she received in 1934.

Fonts (selection)

  • Pathological stone formation from the colloid-chemical point of view . In: Journal of molecular medicine , Vol. 5, 1926, pp. 1257-1260.
  • together with A. Fernau: Ultramicroscopic investigation of the effect of penetrating radium radiation on pseudoglobulin . In: Journal of molecular medicine , Vol. 6, 1927, No. 38, pp. 1798-1800.
  • together with W. Hausmann: About light protection through pre-irradiated protein solutions . In: Journal of molecular medicine , Vol. 6, 1927, No. 46, pp. 2182-2184.
  • The globulins , Dresden [u. a.]: Steinkopff 1930 (Handbook of Colloid Science in Individual Representations; 4).
  • [Autobiography]. In: Elga Kern (ed.): Leading women in Europe, New Series , Munich: Reinhardt 1930, pp. 52–63.
  • together with George C. Henry: X-Ray diffraction studies in biology and medicine, New York: Grune & Stratton 1947.

literature

  • Katharina Kniefacz: Anna Simona Spiegel-Adolf . In: Memorial book for the victims of National Socialism at the University of Vienna 1938 ( online ).

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Spiegel-Adolf, Mona
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Spiegel-Adolf, Mona Simona
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-American pathologist and chemist
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH December 12, 1983