Rosemarie Ostwald

Rosemarie Ostwald , née Bernfeld, (born June 24, 1915 in Vienna ; † July 11, 1984 in Berkeley , California ) was an Austrian-American biochemist, nutritionist and university professor.

life and work

Rosemarie Bernfeld was the daughter of the reform pedagogue and psychoanalyst Siegfried Bernfeld and studied at the University of Vienna from 1933 to 1934 . From 1934 to 1939 she studied chemistry at the University of Zurich with Nobel Prize winner Paul Karrer , where she received her doctorate in 1939. In 1936 she married the architect Hans Ostwald (1913–1973), with whom she had 3 sons. In 1939 she emigrated to the United States and in 1946 became a research associate in Melvin Calvin's radiation laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley . In 1957 she became an adjunct professor for nutritional sciences, 1963 assistant professor and 1974 professor for nutrition and biochemistry at Berkeley. In 1976 she traveled to Nepal for a nutritional survey and in 1980 studied the effects of intestinal parasites on childhood nutrition in Papua New Guinea .

She was a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science , the American Chemical Society , the American Society for Nutrition, and has published in numerous scientific journals.

Publications (selection)

• Hydrogenated flavins and semiquinones . Zurich 1939 (dissertation)

literature

• Ostwald, Rosemarie. In: Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Hrsg.): Biographical manual of German-speaking emigration after 1933. Volume I: Politics, economy, public life. KG Saur, Munich 1999, p. 880 ( PDF; 1.9 MB ).
• Ostwald, Rosemarie. In: Ilse Korotin, Nastasja Stupnicki (ed.): Biographies of important Austrian women scientists. "Curiosity drives me to ask questions". Böhlau, Vienna 2018, pp. 665–666 ( digitized version ).

Web links

• Fragments of Rosemarie Ostwald's estate in the German Exile Archive of the German National Library