Ursula Franklin

Ursula Franklin (2006)

Ursula Martius Franklin , CC , O.Ont , FRSC (born September 16, 1921 in Munich ; † July 22, 2016 in Toronto ) was a German - Canadian physicist .

Life

Ursula Maria Martius grew up in Munich as the daughter of the Lutheran ethnographer Albrecht Martius (1884–1969), who worked for Leo Frobenius , and the art historian Ilse Maria geb. Sperling (1890-; of Jewish descent), who married in 1920. The family later moved to Berlin. In 1940 Ursula began studying physics and chemistry at the University of Berlin, but was forcibly de-registered in 1942 and interned in a labor education camp for 18 months because of her “half-Jewish” descent , while both parents were in a concentration camp. In a letter to Otto Hahn dated April 23, 1946, she expressed resignation about the German physicists: "Whatever people build, it will always be a barracks, a barracks that I don't really want to live in." the German Physical Society because of their tolerance towards old National Socialists. She mentioned names, e.g. B. Pascual Jordan , Herbert Arthur Stuart , Erich Schumann and Hans Otto Kneser . She did her doctorate in experimental physics in 1948 at the Technical University of Berlin with Hartmut Kallmann , who was also persecuted and left Germany a little later. The following year she went to the University of Toronto as a post-doctoral student and stayed in Canada from then on. She became a Quaker . In 1967 she became the first female professor in the metallurgy and materials science department at the University of Toronto.

She is considered a pioneer in archaeometry . Among other things, Franklin developed methods for the precise determination of the radioactive strontium isotope ⁹⁰ Sr, which is created in the atmosphere after atom bomb explosions. She dealt with technology assessment as well as with the interactions between technology and society, in particular with peace issues . After she was allowed to give the Massey Lectures in 1989 , she published the book The Real World of Technology from it in 1992 .

Awards

• Franklin became the Order Officer of the Order of Canada and in 1981
• Awarded the Companion of the Order of Canada in 1992 , the highest level of the Order of Canada , Canada's highest honor for civilians.
• In 2001 Franklin was awarded the Pearson Peace Medal , a Canadian peace award, for her services .

Fonts

• The Real World of Technology (= CBC Massey lectures series. ). CBC Enterprises, Montréal 1990, ISBN 0-88784-531-2 .
• The Ursula Franklin Reader. Pacifism as a Map. With an introduction by Michelle Swenarchuk. Between the Lines, Toronto 2006, ISBN 1-897071-18-3 .

literature

• Dieter Hoffmann , Mark Walker (ed.): Physicists between autonomy and adaptation. The German Physical Society in the Third Reich , Weinheim, Wiley-VCH, 2007, ISBN 978-3-527-40585-5

Web links

Commons : Ursula Franklin  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Renowned University of Toronto scientist Ursula Franklin dead at 94
2. ^ Martius family history
3. ↑ ^{a b} Susan Hill Lindley, Eleanor J. Stebner (Ed.): The Westminster Handbook to Women in American Religious History. Westminster John Knox Press, Louisville KY et al. 2008, ISBN 978-0-664-22454-7 , pp. 82-83. Ursula Franklin Speaks: Thoughts and Afterthoughts , ed. v. Sarah Jane Freeman, 2014
4. ↑ Quotation from Gerhard Rammer: “ Cleanliness among colleagues”. The politics of the past of the German Physical Society , in: Hoffmann / Walker (ed.): Physicists between autonomy and adaptation: The German Physical Society in the Third Reich , p. 393, note 102
5. ↑ "Videant consules ..." . In: Deutsche Rundschau. Vol. 70, No. 11, 1947, ZDB -ID 205873-x , pp. 99-102.
6. ↑ Carlotta Hacker: Scientists. Weigl Educational Publishers, Calgary 1999, ISBN 1-896990-03-7 , p. 43.
7. ↑ Janine Marchessault, Kim Sawchuk (Ed.): Wild Science. Reading Feminism, Medicine, and the Media. Routledge, London et al. 2000, ISBN 0-415-20430-5 , p. XII.
8. ^ Honors Order of Canada . Governor General of Canada. Retrieved September 18, 2008.
9. ↑ UNA-CANADA: Pearson Peace Medal. Dr. Ursula M. Franklin, OC FRSC (2001). ( Memento of April 29, 2002 in the Internet Archive )