Hertha Wambacher

Hertha Wambacher ( born March 9, 1903 in Vienna, † April 25, 1950 ibid ) was an Austrian physicist.

After graduating from high school at the girls' school of the Association for Advanced Women's Education ( Rahlgasse ) in 1922 Hertha Wambacher studied at the University of Vienna first chemistry, physics later.

Wambachers dissertation on the 2nd Physics Institute was supervised by Marietta Blue, collaborated with the Wambacher even after their graduation in 1932. The cooperation of the two women referred to the photographic method of detecting ionizing particle. For their methodological studies at the Institute for Radium Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna were blue and Wambacher 1937 Lieben Prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Also in 1937 discovered the two in joint work in photographic plates that had been exposed at an altitude of 2300 m of cosmic rays, " shattering star ", which are star- shaped running Teilchenbahnspuren of nuclear reactions ( Spallationsereignissen ) of the cosmic ray particles with nuclei of photographic emulsion.

After Blue 1938 had to leave the Vienna Radium Institute, Hertha Wambacher continued to work on the identification of particles from the nuclear reactions of cosmic rays with the constituents of the photographic emulsion. She qualified with this work in 1940 and taught at the University of Vienna. In 1945 Wambacher was that had belonged by its own account since 1934, the Nazi Party, from the University of Vienna. She was deported to Russia and to have come back from there until 1946. She suffered from cancer, but was still working in a research laboratory in Vienna.

Wambacher died from cancer on 25 April 1950.