Biography:Hildegard Korf Kallmann-Bijl
Hildegard Korf Kallmann-Bijl (1908 – November 7, 1968) was a German-Jewish physicist who emigrated to the United States where she founded and was the first chair of Committee on Space Research (COSPAR).
Biography
Hildegard Korf was born in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, 1908. She studied philosophy at the University of Berlin, metallurgy at Technische Hochschule, and physics at University of California, Los Angeles (BS, 1945; MS, 1947, Ph.D., 1955).
Kallmann-Bijl was employed by RAND Corporation (1953–64), was a guest professor at University of Utrecht (1964), and authored several papers. She served as a consultant to the United States Air Force and NASA, and was a member of the National Academy of Sciences.[1][2]
Kallmann-Bijl was married twice, first to Curt Kallmann (divorce, 1957) and then to Jan Bijl. She died in The Hague, Netherlands, November 7, 1968. Her papers are held by Leo Baeck Institute at the Center for Jewish History.[2]
References
- ↑ National Research Council (U S. ) COSPAR, National Research Council (U S. ) COSPAR (1969). "Preliminary Report [of The COSPAR Twelfth Plenary Meeting and Tenth International Space Science Symposium, May 11-24, 1969, Prague, Czechoslovakia"] (in en). National Academies. https://books.google.com/books?id=pkMrAAAAYAAJ&q=cospar+kallman&pg=PA69. Retrieved 8 October 2019.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Guide to the Papers of Hildegard Kallmann1941-1955, 1978AR 4692". http://digifindingaids.cjh.org/?pID=480470. Retrieved 8 October 2019.
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