Biography:Katharina Boll-Dornberger
Katharina Boll-Dornberger (2 November 1909 – 27 July 1981), also known as Käte Dornberger-Schiff, was an Austrian-German physicist and crystallographer.[1][2] She is known for her work on order-disorder structures.[1][3][4][5]
Life
Katharina Boll-Dornberger was born in Vienna in 1909 as the daughter of the university professor Walter Karl and Alice Friederike Schiff.[6] She studied physics and mathematics in Vienna and Göttingen.[7] She wrote her dissertation under supervision of V. M. Goldschmidt on the crystal structure of water-free zinc sulfate in Göttingen and handed it in in Vienna in 1934.[7][8] In 1937 she emigrated to England.[7] In England, she worked with John D. Bernal, Nevill F. Mott, and Dorothy Hodgkin.[6] She married Paul Dornberger in 1939.[6] Her sons were born in 1943 and 1946.[6] In 1946, she and her family returned to Germany. At first, she worked as a lecturer for physics and mathematics at the Hochschule für Baukunst in Weimar. Then, she moved to East Berlin. Starting in 1948, she was the head of a department at the Institut für Biophysik at the German Academy of Sciences at Berlin.[7] In 1952, she married Ludwig Boll.[6] In 1956, she became a professor at the Humboldt University.[6] In 1958, the Institut für Strukturforschung was created and she was head of the institute until 1968.[6] She died in 1981 in Berlin.[6]
Research
Her research focused on the crystallographic investigation of order-disorder structures.[1] She introduced groupoids to crystallography to describe disordered structures.[1] Roughly 2/3 of her 60 publications focused on order-disorder.[1] The other publications dealt with structure determination of organic and inorganic crystals, methods development in single-crystal diffraction, and the development of equipment for this purpose.[1]
Awards
For her work in crystallography, she was awarded two national awards by the German Democratic Republic:
- Patriotic Order of Merit in 1959[9][8]
- National Prize of the German Democratic Republic in 1960[10][8]
A street in Berlin is named after her.[8]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Steinike, U. (2002). "KATHARINA BOLL-DORNBERGER GEB. SCHIFF". Mittelungen der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Kristallographie 24: 62–75. http://dgk-home.de/media/pdf/heft24.pdf.
- ↑ "Boll-Dornberger, Katharina". 12 December 2018. https://www.bundesstiftung-aufarbeitung.de/wer-war-wer-in-der-ddr-%2363;-1424.html?ID=357.
- ↑ Neels, H. (1979). "Laudatio Professor Käte Boll‐Dornberger.". Krist. Techn. 14 (9): 1025–1026. doi:10.1002/crat.19790140902.
- ↑ Dornberger-Schiff, K. (1964). Grundzüge einer Theorie der OD-Strukturen aus Schichten. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag.
- ↑ Dornberger-Schiff, K. (1956). "On order-disorder structures (OD-structures)". Acta Crystallogr. 9 (7): 593–601. doi:10.1107/S0365110X56001625.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 6.7 Biography Humboldt University. Retrieved in October 2018.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Exhibition Humbold University Retrieved in October 2018.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 Neumann, Wolfgang; Benz, Klaus-Werner (2018). Kristalle verändern unsere Welt : Struktur - Eigenschaften - Anwendungen. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. pp. 253. ISBN 9783110439076. OCLC 1037980301.
- ↑ "Hohe Auszeichnungen verliehen". Berliner Zeitung. 12 November 1959. http://zefys.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/ddr-presse/ergebnisanzeige/?purl=SNP26120215-19591112-0-2-147-0.
- ↑ "Mit Nationalpreis 1960 geehrt". Neues Deutschland. 7 October 1960. http://zefys.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/ddr-presse/ergebnisanzeige/?purl=SNP2532889X-19601007-0-5-0-0.
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