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= Hildegard Stücklen = From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigationJump to search Hildegard Stücklen (Berlin, Germany, 3 May 1891 – 15 December 1963, Germany) was a German-American physicist who dealt with spectroscopy.

Life and career[ edit]
Stücklen, the daughter of factory owner Hermann Stücklen, was assistant to Eduard Riecke and earned her doctorate in 1919 at the University of Göttingen with Robert Wichard Pohl with a dissertation on the question of the apparent form of the firmament. Then she went to Zurich, interrupted by a year in Delft (1921). In 1931 she qualified as a lecturer at the University of Zurich, where she was a private tutor. In 1934 she emigrated to the United States with the help of the Swiss Association of University Women and a National Research Council Fellowship. There she was Assistant Professor at Mount Holyoke College, a women's college in South Hadley, Massachusetts, then spent a year at Caltech. From 1943, she was Associate Professor at Sweet Briar College, Virginia. She retired in 1956 but spent four more years as Chairman of the Wilson College Physics Faculty in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. After retiring again in 1960, she returned to Germany, where she died in 1963.

In the USA, she collaborated frequently with Hertha Sponer, who had an experimental laboratory at Duke University, not far from Sweet Briar College.

References[ edit]

 * Marie-Ann Maushart: Hertha Sponer, Bassum 1997.
 * Renate Tobies, Aller Männerkultur zum Trotz: Frauen in Mathematik, Naturwissenschaften und Technik (All Men's Culture Nevertheless. Women in Mathematics and Natural Sciences), Campus 1997.
 * Bettina Vincenz: Wife, women or pioneers? The Swiss Association of Academics (SVA) in the inter-war period. Baden 2011, ISBN 978-3-03919-198-7

Works[ edit]

 * "Insufficient discharge between cold electrodes, ionization by glowing bodies, flame conductivity," Handbuch der Physik, 1927.
 * With Emma P. Carr, Lucy W. Pickett, "The Absorption Spectra of a Series of Dienes," Rev. Mod. Phys. 14, 1942, p. 260.
 * With Hertha Sponer: "The Near Ultraviolet Absorption of Pyridine Vapor", J. Chem. Phys., No. 14, 1946, pp. 101–112.
 * "The Effect of Cosmic Rays on Meteorites," Contributions of the Meteoritical Society, Vol. 4, no. 16, pp. 255–258, 1950.