Hedwig Kohn
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Gender | Female |
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Death | 60 years ago |
Date of birth | April 5,1887 |
Zodiac sign | Aries |
Born | Wroclaw |
Poland | |
Date of died | November 26,1964 |
Died | Durham |
North Carolina | |
United States | |
Alma mater | University of Wrocław |
Field | Physics |
Nationality | German |
Institutions | Duke University |
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro | |
Wellesley College | |
University of Wrocław | |
Academic advisor | Rudolf Ladenburg |
Otto Lummer | |
Education | University of Wrocław |
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Date of Upd. | |
ID | 906091 |
Hedwig Kohn Life story
Hedwig Kohn was a physicist who was one of only three women to obtain habilitation in physics in Germany before World War II. Born in Breslau in the German Empire, she was forced to leave Germany during the Nazi regime because she was Jewish.