Noemie Benczer Koller

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Noemie Benczer Koller (born August 21, 1933 in Vienna ) is an Austrian- American nuclear physicist and first female professor at Rutgers University .

life and work

Koller emigrated with her parents to France in 1935 , to Cuba in 1942 and to Mexico in 1943 , where she attended a French school. After graduating from high school, she traveled to New York in 1951 and studied at Barnard College , as Columbia University did not accept female students. In 1953 she received her bachelor's degree in American history, mathematics, and physics, and her master's degree in 1955. In 1956 she married the physics student Earl Leonard Koller Stevens and received her PhD in experimental physics with Chien-Shiung Wu at Columbia University in 1958 , where she was employed as a postdoc until 1960. She then got a job in the Faculty of Physics as the first woman in the history of Rutgers University in New Brunswick and in 1965 a professorship. She was a member of the nuclear physics research group working on the Tandem Van de Graaff accelerator and a condensed matter physicist who carried out experiments on the Mössbauer effect . From 1986 to 1989 she headed the Laboratory for Nuclear Physics. From 1992 to 1996 she was Deputy Dean for Sciences at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in the administration of the university. She was active in the American Physical Society and on numerous national committees, and from 1993 to 1994 chaired the APS Nuclear Physics Division with 2,500 members.

Every year, the Noemie Benczer Koller Scholarship is awarded to two Rutgers physicists who, according to the Faculty of Physics, have achieved outstanding academic achievements. An anonymous donor started it in honor of Noemie B. Koller.

Awards

  • 1966: Fellow, American Physical Society
  • 1997: New Jersey Women of Achievement Award
  • 2001: Daniel Gorenstein Memorial Award, Rutgers University
  • 2006: Distinguished Service Award of the APS Division of Nuclear Physics
  • 2010: Dwight Nicholson Medal for human outreach, American Physical Society

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personal data
SURNAME Benczer Koller, Noemie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Koller, Noemi; Benczer, Noemi (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-American nuclear physicist and first professor at Rutgers University
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna