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Hedwig Kohn

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Gender Female
Death60 years ago
Date of birth April 5,1887
Zodiac sign Aries
Born Wroclaw
Poland
Date of died November 26,1964
DiedDurham
North Carolina
United States
Alma mater University of Wrocław
Field Physics
NationalityGerman
Institutions Duke University
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Wellesley College
University of Wrocław
Academic advisor Rudolf Ladenburg
Otto Lummer
Education University of Wrocław
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Date of Upd.
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Hedwig Kohn was a physicist who was one of only three women to obtain habilitation in physics in Germany before World War II. Born in Breslau in the German Empire, she was forced to leave Germany during the Nazi regime because she was Jewish.

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