Charlotte Riefenstahl

Charlotte Houtermans

1899-05-24 - 19xx-xx-xx


Charlotte Riefenstahl was born 1899-05-24 in Bielefeld. She was a teacher at a private school in Lauenförde for two years before she took up her studies of natural sciences and mathematics in Göttingen Easter 1922. Her teachers were Born, Courant, Franck, Goetz, Gudden, Hertz, Hilbert, Kienle, Kötz, Mügge, Nadai, Nelson, Noether, Oldenberg, Peter, Pohl, Reich, Runge, Schmalenbach, Tammann, Vogel and Windaus. She obtained her PhD under Gustav Tammann 1927-07-20; thesis: Über den Walzvorgang und die Rekristallisation beim Silber und Gold. Die Änderung des elektrischen Widerstandes bei den selbsthärtenden Legierungen Blei-Quecksilber und Blei-Natrium.

She made friends with J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-04-22 - 1967-02-18) who had graduated from Harvard in 1925 and obtained his PhD under Max Born at Göttingen also in 1927; thesis: Zur Quantentheorie kontinuierlicher Spektren.

In 1930 she married the physicist Fritz Houtermans (Friedrich Georg Houtermans, 1903 - 1966) who obtained his PhD under James Franck also at Göttingen in 1927; thesis: Über die Bandenfluoreszenz und die lichtelektrische Ionisierung des Quecksilberdampfes.

References

Iosif B. Khriplovich. The eventful life of Fritz Houtermans. Physics Today 45(7):29 - 37, 1992

Konrad Landrock. Friedrich Georg Houtermans (1903-1966) - Ein bedeutender Physiker des 20. Jahrhunderts. Naturwiss. Rundschau 56(4):187 - 199, 2003


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