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Gudrun Kalmbach H. E. (* May, 27 1937 in Grosserlach) is a German mathematician, Until retirement she was a professor and director of  MINT (Mathematik, Informatik, Naturwissenschaften, Technik) at the  Universitaet Ulm, Germany.



Life
Early in her life she decided to take a career in science and education. After studying at the Universitaet Goettingen she got her PhD 1966 under Hans Grauert on the theme Ueber niederdimensionale CW-Komplexe in nicht kompakten Mannigfaltigkeiten. (On lower-dimensional CW-complexes in noncompact manifolds.)

From 1967 until 1969 she was lecturer at the University of Illinois, Urbana. After this time she worked as assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (1970–1971) and the Pennsylvania State University (1969–1975). She got her ‘‘Habilitation‘‘ in 1975 at the Universitaet Ulm. 1975 she got as first woman a professorship at the Universitaet Ulm. This position she held until her retirement in 2002.

Today she lives in Bad Woerishofen, Bavaria.

Main Activities
Gudrun Kalmbach has made an essential contribution to establish the German talent search program MINT, - MINT-Fächer. She invented the initial word, founded and organized  (1984-2002) the first German educational programm  MINT (Mathematik, Informatik, Naturwissenschaften, Technik) consisting of  the Baden-Wuerttemberg-Hessian university bound competition Tag der Mathematik  (Mathematics Day, cofounder: H.-B. Brinkmann, L. Kaup, Universitaet Konstanz) and with  MINT enrichment courses   for high school students of the 12th grade Gymnasium  (Teachers: changing professors, ‘‘Dozenten‘‘, scientific assistants from the Universitaet Konstanz, at MINT Universitaet Ulm - G. Kalmbach and the  lecturer and scientific assistants M. Grimm, P. Hitzler, F. Houdek, M. Kessler, S. Knupfer, G. and K. Schmitthuesen) until 2002.

Her research is on Lattice Theory and noncommutative Measure Theory, also with respect to Quantum Structures. Since the 1970 years she developed Quantum logics and until now, since the end of the 1980th, an own geometrical-algebraical based Unification Theory for the basic four forces in physics.

Honors


Titles: World Laureate of Germany 2000 and Her Excellency H. E.. 2000 Medal of Honor and Order of International Ambassadors Medal of Honor. Albert Schweitzer Medal 2009. Dedication of two books to her 60th birthday and one for her 75th birthday. She is a member of the American Mathematical Society.

Literature

 * Sylvia Pulmannova (Editor): Quantum Structures II, Tatra Mountains Math. Publ., 15, 1998, Mathematical Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences, decicated to Kalmbach, with a list of her publications and her biography.

Books

 * Diskrete Mathematik. Vieweg Verlag, Wiesbaden 1988, ISBN 3-528-06303-3.
 * Mathematik bunt gemischt. I, II (mit R. Schweizer). Reinhardt Becker Verlag, Velten 1996, ISBN 3-89597-269-X.
 * Measures and Hilbert Lattices. World Scientific Publishing, Singapore 1986, ISBN 9971-5-0009-4.
 * Orthomodular Lattices. Academic Press, London 1983, ISBN 0-12-394580-1.
 * Quantum Measures and Spaces. Kluwer, Dordrecht 1998, ISBN 0-7923-5288-2.
 * Talent Development in Mathematics, Science and Technology.
 * Band I: Aegis-Verlag, Ulm 1989, ISBN 3-924756-04-X.
 * Band II: Aegis-Verlag, Ulm 1991, ISBN 3-924756-06-6.
 * Conference Books 1-28 to MINT (Mathematik, Informatik, Naturwissenschaften, Technik) (Editorial Board: O. Baumgaertner, R. Berger, W. Bruebach, A. Dvurecenskij, M. Grimm, O. Grosek, W. Hauptvogel, P. Hitzler, F. Houdek, V. Janis, F. J. Klingen, O. Lange, B. Riecan, Z. Riecanova), Aegis-Verlag, Ulm and MINT Verlag, Bad Woerishofen 1997-2013.

Weblinks

 * Kalmbach A Conception of the World