Lotte Pusch

Lotte Pusch (18901983) was a German physical chemist.

Education

Pusch was granted her doctorate in March 1916 from the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität (later the Humboldt University of Berlin).[1][2]

Career

Upon receipt of her doctorate, Pusch, in the summer semester of 1916, became the only female Assistent (assistant) at the Physikalisch-Chemischen Institut at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität. She held the position until 1920. By law, as a civil servant, she was required to relinquish her position to a returning man, in this case Dr. Kurt Bennwitz. In addition, she gave up her career in favor of her husband, the physical chemist Max Volmer.[1]

Personal

Lotte and Max knew and socialized with the physicist Lise Meitner and the chemist Otto Hahn from the 1920s onwards.[3]

Selected Literature

Bibliography

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 Vogt, 1998, 24-25.
  2. Lotte Pusch Über die Zeitreaktion bei der Neutralisation der Kohlensäure und die wahre Dissoziationskonstante der Kohlensäure PhD thesis, Universität, Berlin, 1916. 37 pp. (29 March 1916).
  3. Sime, 1997, 367.