Lotte Pusch was a German physical chemist

Physical chemistry

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Education

Pusch was granted her doctorate in March 1916 from the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität (later the Humboldt University of Berlin

Humboldt University of Berlin

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Career

Upon receipt of her doctorate, Pusch, in the summer semester of 1916, became the only female Assistent (assistant) at the Physikalisch-Chemischen Institut at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität. She held the position until 1920. By law, as a civil servant, she was required to relinquish her position to a returning man, in this case Dr. Kurt Bennwitz. In addition, she gave up her career in favor of her husband, the physical chemist Max Volmer

Max Volmer

Max Volmer was a German physical chemist, who made important contributions in electrochemistry, in particular on electrode kinetics. He co-developed the Butler–Volmer equation. Volmer held the chair and directorship of the Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry Institute of the Technische...

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Personal

Lotte and Max knew and socialized with the physicist

Physicist

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 Lise Meitner

Lise Meitner

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 and the chemist

Chemist

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 Otto Hahn

Otto Hahn

Otto Hahn FRS was a German chemist and Nobel laureate, a pioneer in the fields of radioactivity and radiochemistry. He is regarded as "the father of nuclear chemistry". Hahn was a courageous opposer of Jewish persecution by the Nazis and after World War II he became a passionate campaigner...

from the 1920s onwards.

Selected Literature

• Lotte Pusch Über die Zeitreaktion bei der Neutralisation der Kohlensäure und die wahre Dissoziationskonstante der Kohlensäure PhD thesis, Universität, Berlin, 1916. 37 pp. (29 March 1916)

• Lotte Pusch Über die Zeitreaktion bei der Neutralisation der Kohlensäure und die wahre Dissoziationskonstante der Kohlensäure, Zeitsch. Elektrochem. Volume 22, Issues 11/12, 206–212 (1916)

• Lotte Pusch Nachtrag zu meiner Arbeit: Über die Zeitreaktion bei der Neutralisation der Kohlensäure und die wahre Dissoziationskonstante der Kohlenäure, Zeitsch. Elektrochem. Volume 22, Issues 15/16, 293 (1916)

• Lotte Pusch Zur Anwendung des Einsteinschen photochemischen Äquivalentgesetzes. II., Zeitsch. Elektrochem. Volume 24, 336 – 339 (1918)