Hertha Sponer

Hertha Sponer
Hertha Sponer in 1913
Born1 September 1895
Died27 February 1968(1968-02-27) (aged 72)
NationalityGerman
Alma materUniversity of Göttingen
Known forBirge-Sponer method
Awards1952–53 Guggenheim Fellow
Fellow, New York Academy of Sciences
Fellow, Optical Society of America
Fellow, American Physical Society.
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
InstitutionsUniversity of Jena
Duke University
Doctoral advisorPeter Debye

Hertha Sponer (1 September 1895 – 27 February 1968) was a German physicist and chemist who contributed to modern quantum mechanics and molecular physics and was the first woman on the physics faculty of Duke University. She was the older sister of philologist and resistance fighter Margot Sponer.[1]

  1. ^ Vogt, Annette (2001). "Eine vergessene Widerstandskämpferin. Die Wissenschaftlerin Margot Sponer (1898–1945)" [A forgotten resistance fighter. The scholar Margot Sponer (1898–1945)]. Berlinische Monatsschrift (in German). 5. Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein [de] e. V. Archived from the original on 18 April 2021.