Katharina Boll-Dornberger

Katharina Boll-Dornberger (2 November 1909 – 27 July 1981), also known as Käte Dornberger-Schiff, was an Austrian-German physicist and crystallographer.[1][2] She is known for her work on order-disorder structures.[1][3][4][5][6]

Life

Katharina Boll-Dornberger was born in Vienna in 1909 as the daughter of the university professor Walter Karl [de] and Alice Friederike (Gertrude) Schiff.[7] She studied physics and mathematics in Vienna and Göttingen.[8] She wrote her dissertation under supervision of V. M. Goldschmidt on the crystal structure of water-free zinc sulfate in Göttingen and handed it in in Vienna in 1934.[8][9] Afterwards, she conducted research in Philipp Gross's lab in Vienna. In 1937 she emigrated to England.[8] In England, she worked with John D. Bernal, Nevill F. Mott, and Dorothy Hodgkin.[7] She married Paul Dornberger in 1939.[7] Her sons were born in 1943 and 1946.[7] In 1946, she and her family returned to Germany. At first, she worked as a lecturer for physics and mathematics at the Hochschule für Baukunst in Weimar. Then, she moved to East Berlin. Starting in 1948, she was the head of a department at the Institut für Biophysik at the German Academy of Sciences at Berlin.[8] In 1952, she married Ludwig Boll (1911–1984), a German mathematician.[7][10][nb 1] In 1956, she became a professor at the Humboldt University.[7] In 1958, the Institut für Strukturforschung was created and she was head of the institute until 1968.[7] She died in 1981 in Berlin.[7]

Research

Her research focused on the crystallographic investigation of order-disorder structures.[1] She introduced groupoids to crystallography to describe disordered structures.[1] Roughly 2/3 of her 60 publications focused on order-disorder.[1] The other publications dealt with structure determination of organic and inorganic crystals, methods development in single-crystal diffraction, and the development of equipment for this purpose.[1]

Awards

For her work in crystallography, she was awarded two national awards by the German Democratic Republic:

A street in Berlin is named after her.[9]

Notes

  1. ^ Ludwig Boll (1911-12-10 Gaulsheim, Germany – 1984-12-02), GND 1068090308, German mathematician. [1][2]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Steinike, U. (2002). "Katharina Boll-Dornberger geb. Schiff" (PDF). Mitteilungen der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Kristallographie (in German). 24: 62–75.
  2. ^ "Boll-Dornberger, Katharina" (in German). 2018-12-12.
  3. ^ Neels, H. (1979). "Laudatio Professor Käte Boll-Dornberger". Kristall und Technik (in German). 14 (9): 1025–1026. doi:10.1002/crat.19790140902.
  4. ^ Dornberger-Schiff, K. (1964). Grundzüge einer Theorie der OD-Strukturen aus Schichten (in German). Berlin, Germany: Akademie-Verlag.
  5. ^ Dornberger-Schiff, K. (1956). "On order-disorder structures (OD-structures)". Acta Crystallographica. 9 (7): 593–601. Bibcode:1956AcCry...9..593D. doi:10.1107/S0365110X56001625.
  6. ^ Dornberger-Schiff, K. (1979). "OD Structures, — a Game and a Bit More". Kristall und Technik (in German). 14 (9): 1027–1045. doi:10.1002/crat.19790140903.
  7. ^ a b c d e f g h Biography Humboldt University. Retrieved in October 2018.
  8. ^ a b c d Exhibition Humbold University. Retrieved in October 2018.
  9. ^ a b c d Neumann, Wolfgang; Benz, Klaus-Werner (2018). Kristalle verändern unsere Welt: Struktur - Eigenschaften - Anwendungen (in German). Berlin, Germany: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. p. 253. ISBN 978-3-11043907-6. OCLC 1037980301.
  10. ^ Heinsohn, Kirsten; Nicolaysen, Rainer, eds. (2021-03-29). Belastete Beziehungen: Studien zur Wirkung von Exil und Remigration auf die Wissenschaften in Deutschland nach 1945. Hamburger Beiträge zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte (in German). Vol. 27 (1 ed.). Wallstein Verlag [de]. pp. 102–103. ISBN 978-3-83534527-0. ISBN 3-83534527-3. (371 pages)
  11. ^ "Hohe Auszeichnungen verliehen". Berliner Zeitung (in German). 1959-11-12. Retrieved 2018-12-12.
  12. ^ "Mit Nationalpreis 1960 geehrt". Neues Deutschland (in German). 1960-10-07. Retrieved 2018-12-12.

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