Cäcilia Böhm-Wendt Explained
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| Birth Name: | Cäcilia Wendt |
| Birth Date: | 4 May 1875 |
| Birth Place: | Troppau, Silesia |
| Nationality: | Austrian |
| Fields: | Physics |
| Workplaces: | University of Vienna |
| Alma Mater: | University of Vienna (1900) |
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Cäcilia Böhm-Wendt (born 4 May 1875) was an Austrian physicist, who conducted research on radioactivity.
Early life and education
She was born Cäcilia Wendt on 4 May 1875 in Troppau, Silesia.[1] She studied at the University of Vienna from 1896 to 1900, where she published work on rational values of trigonometric functions,[2] receiving a doctoral degree for research on special functions of importance in mathematical physics.[1] [3] [4]
Career
In 1900, she became the first woman to hold the position of probationary teacher at Vienna's gymnasium for young women (gymnasiale Mädchenschule). She worked at the University of Vienna's Physical Institute, investigating how the radiation produced by radium created electrical conductivity in dielectric materials (petroleum ether and vaseline oil). She then obtained the mobility of the resulting ions.[5] [6] [7] At the institute, she was a research collaborator with its director, Egon von Schweidler.
In 1909, she and Maria Sadzewicz were the only two women in Austria to publish physics papers; at this time, only about 1% of physicists were women.[8]
Notes and References
- Book: Ladies in the Laboratory II: West European Women in Science, 1800-1900 : A Survey of Their Contributions to Research. 9780810849792. Creese. Mary R. S.. Creese. Thomas M.. 2004.
- Wendt. Cäcilie. 1899. Note über die Kreisfunctionen. Monatshefte für Mathematik und Physik. de. 10. 1. 97–100. 10.1007/BF01695049. 121649061. 0026-9255.
- Book: Good. David F.. Austrian Women in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Cross-disciplinary Perspectives. Grandner. Margarete. Maynes. Mary Jo. 1996. Berghahn Books. 978-1-57181-045-8. 51. en.
- Wendt. Cäcilie. 1900. Eine Verallgemeinerung des Additionstheoremes der Bessel'schen Functionen erster Art. Monatshefte für Mathematik und Physik. de. 11. 1. 125–131. 10.1007/BF01832513. 120601933. 0026-9255.
- Böhm-Wendt. Cäcilia. Schweidler . Egon . Egon Schweidler . 1909. Über die spezifische Geschwindigkeit der Ionen in flüssigen Dielektrikas. Physikalische Zeitschrift. 10. 379–382.
- Book: Rutherford, Ernest. Radioactive Substances and Their Radiations. Cambridge University Press. 1913. 326. en. Ernest Rutherford.
- Book: Ogilvie. Marilyn. The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: Pioneering Lives From Ancient Times to the Mid-20th Century. Harvey. Joy. Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie. Joy Harvey. 2003-12-16. Routledge. 978-1-135-96342-2. en.
- Wróblewski. A. K.. 2010. Physics 1909: A Portrait of the Field Hundred Years Ago. Acta Physica Polonica B. 41. 2. 229.
