Isolde Hausser

Isolde Hausser, maiden name Isolde Ganswindt ( born December 7, 1889 in Berlin, † October 5, 1951 in Heidelberg) was a German physicist and later Head of Department of Kaiser-Wilhelm-/Max-Planck-Instituts for Medical Research.

Life

She was the daughter of Hermann goose Windts and his first wife Anna Minna née Fritsche ( 1866-1911 ). After graduation in 1909 at the Chamisso School, Berlin -Schöneberg, she began studying physics, mathematics and philosophy at the University of Berlin, she with a thesis on the " production and reception of short electrical waves " and graduated in 1914.

From 1914 to 1929 she was as an employee of the Research Department of Telefunken in Berlin under the direction of Hans Rukop ( 1883-1958 ), with whom she shared also published several research papers, employee. She married in 1918 the physicist Wilhelm Karl Hausser ( 1887-1933 ), with whom she had a son, Karl Hermann Hausser ( 1919-2001 ). In 1929, she moved to the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, where in 1935 took over the management of an independent department. From the KWI for Medical Research was founded later, the Max - Planck - Institute for Medical Research. Hausser worked there until her death in 1951.

Isolde Hausser contributed with their work to the tube research, the physical basis of radiotherapy, radar technology and radiation research in medicine.

According to her Isolde - Hausser street was named in king Wusterhausen.