Doris Schachner

Doris (Elfriede) Schachner (30 May 1904 in Bockwa near Zwickau – 1 April 1988 in Heidelberg) née Korn was the first female German professor for Mineralogy and Honorary Senator of the RWTH Aachen University.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

Photograph of Doris Schachner
Photograph of Doris Schachner (fair use only)

Life

Schachner studied mineralogy at the universities in Heidelberg, Freiburg i. Br., and Innsbruck.[1] She completed her doctorate at the Heidelberg University in 1928 and she completed her habilitation at the TH Aachen in 1933.[1] From 1933 to 1940, she was a lecturer at the TH Aachen.[1] At the end of the second world war (from 1941 to 1945), she worked at the Brno University of Technology.[7] In 1946, she returned to Aachen.[7] In 1948, she became an extraordinary professor at the TH Aachen.[1] From 1949 to 1972, she was an ordinary professor at the TH Aachen.[1] Based on her initiative, the Institute of Crystallography at the TH Aachen was founded in 1963.[2][8] In 1984, she became a Honorary Senator at the TH Aachen.[1] Her daughter Melitta Schachner Camartin was a professor for neurobiology at the University of Hamburg.[7]

Research

Schachner was a pioneer in ore microscopy.[9]

Awards

She was a Honorary Senator of the RWTH Aachen University.[2][3] Two minerals are named after her: Schachnerite and Para-Schachnerite.[9][10] A street in Aachen is named after her.

Selected publications
  • Korn, Doris (1928). Tektonische und gefügeanalytische Untersuchungen im Grundgebirge des Böllsteiner Odenwaldes. Heidelberg: Schweizerbart.
  • Schachner-Korn, Doris (1948-07-01). "Ein metamorphes Erzgefüge". Heidelberger Beiträge zur Mineralogie und Petrographie (in German). 1 (4): 407–426. Bibcode:1948BeiMP...1..407S. doi:10.1007/BF01104123. ISSN 1432-0967.
  • Schachner-Korn,Doris (1954-03-01). "Ein Wachstums- und ein Rekristallisationsgefüge von Bleiglanz aus einer rheinischen Lagerstätte". Tschermaks Mineralogische und Petrographische Mitteilungen (in German). 4 (1–4): 111–116. Bibcode:1954MinPe...4..111S. doi:10.1007/BF01140381. ISSN 1438-1168.

References
  1. "Geschichte der RWTH aachen - Geschichte". www.archiv.rwth-aachen.de. Retrieved 2019-01-01.
  2. "Frauen und Wissenschaft". www.archiv.rwth-aachen.de. Retrieved 2019-01-01.
  3. Marciniak, Dietmar (23 January 1984). "Die TH hat wieder eine Ehrensenatorin - Professor Dr. Doris Schachner wurde geehrt". Aachener Nachrichten. Retrieved 2019-01-01.
  4. Spieth, Volker; Friedrich, Günther H. (2004). "Zum hundertsten Geburtstag von Doris Schachner". World of Metallurgy - ERZMETALL. 57: 176–178.
  5. Gender schafft Wissen - Wissenschaft Gender : geschlechtsspezifische Unterscheidungen und Rollenzuschreibungen im Wandel der Zeit. Gross, Dominik. Kassel: Kassel Univ. Press. 2009. pp. 28–29. ISBN 9783899584493. OCLC 426146398.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  6. "Liselotte Gymnasium Mannheim - Doris Schachner". www.lilo-ma.de. Retrieved 2019-01-01.
  7. "Mineralogie und Lagerstättenlehre". www.iml.rwth-aachen.de. Retrieved 2019-01-01.
  8. "Entwicklung des Instituts für Kristallographie - Deutsch". www.ifk.rwth-aachen.de. Retrieved 2019-01-01.
  9. Seeliger, E.; Mücke, A. (1972). "Para-Schachnerite, Ag1.2Hg0.8 and Schachnerite, Ag1.1Hg0.9 from Landsberg near Obermoschel/Pfalz (in German)". Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie. 117: 1–18.
  10. Vierhaus, Rudolf; Koch, Sven; von Engelhardt, Dietrich (2011-05-03). Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie (DBE). Band 8, Poethen - Schlüter (2., überarbeitete und erweiterte Ausgabe ed.). München. p. 726. ISBN 9783110940251. OCLC 868954238.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
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