Hedwig Kohn | |
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 Kohn in her laboratory, 1912. | |
| Born | 5 April 1887 |
| Died | 26 November 1964 (aged 77) |
| Alma mater | Breslau University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | Breslau University University of North Carolina Wellesley College Duke University |
| Thesis | (1913) |
| Doctoral advisors | Otto Lummer, Rudolf Ladenburg |
Hedwig Kohn (5 April 1887 – 26 November 1964) was a physicist who was one of only three women (along Lise Meitner and Hertha Sponer) to obtain habilitation (the qualification for university teaching) in physics in Germany before World War II. Born in Breslau in the German Empire (now Wrocław, Poland), she was forced to leave Germany during the Nazi regime because she was Jewish. She continued her academic career in the United States, where she settled for the rest of her life.