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Paula Hertwig Paula Hertwig ( 11 October 1889 – 31 March 1983 ) was a German biologist and politician . Her research focused on radiation health effects . Hertwig was the first woman to habilitate at the then Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin ( now Humboldt University of Berlin ) in the field of zoology . She was also the first biologist at a German university . Hertwig is one of the founders of radiation genetics alongside Emmy Stein . Hertwig-Weyers syndrome , which describes oligodactyly in humans as a result of radiation exposure , is named after her and her colleague , Helmut Weyers . Biography . Paula Julie Elisabeth Hertwig was born in Berlin on 11 October 1889 . She was the daughter of Oscar Hertwig , a university professor ; sister of the anatomist , Günther Hertwig ; and niece of the zoologist , Richard Hertwig . She graduated from high school in 1908 , at the Realgymnasium . She studied zoology , botany , and chemistry at the University of Berlin , medical PhD . After that she was an assistant at the Anatomical-Biological Institute of the University of Berlin . From 1916 to 1921 , Hertwig was an unpaid zoology assistant in her fathers Anatomical Institute . She habilitated in 1919 , as the first woman at the then Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin ( now Humboldt University of Berlin ) in the field of zoology . Afterwards , she was a Privatdozentin for General Biology and Heredity at this institute . In 1921 , she was also appointed as an assistant to the Institute for heredity and breeding research of the Agricultural College , where she worked for Erwin Baur . From 1927 to 1945 , she was associate professor of genetics at the Biological-Anatomical Institute of the Medical Faculty of the University of Berlin . As the first biologist at a German university , she taught biology there for medical students . In 1940 , she was appointed Head of the Zoological Department of the Institute of Inheritance . Hertwig , who belonged to the German Democratic Party , was elected in 1932 as Member of Parliament in the Prussian Landtag and in February 1933 again as a deputy in the last Prussian Landtag . In the period of Nazi Germany in 1937 , she was a member of the National Socialist German Lecturers League , but did not join the Nazi Party . From 1937 , she worked with the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research and became a secretary of the Deutschen Gesellschaft für Vererbungswissenschaft ( German Society of Inheritance ) . From 1939 , she also worked as a research assistant at the Institute of Heredity and Breeding Research of the University of Berlin in Zehlendorf . In the years 1941 to 1942 , she participated in the DFG research project Erbschädigungsprobuche on mice . In May 1945 , she received a call to the Faculty of Medicine of the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg , where in 1948 , she became professor of General Biology and Heredity . At the founding congress of the Democratic Womens League of Germany ( DFD ) in March 1947 , she was elected a member of the Federal Executive Committee . From 1947 to 1948 , she was chair of the state association Saxony-Anhalt of the DFD ; and from March 1948 to March 1949 , a member of the 1st Peoples Council in the Soviet occupation zone ( SBZ ) . In 1953 , she was elected a member of the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . Since 1955 , she was a member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities . In 1956 , she was awarded the National Prize of the German Democratic Republic and the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze , and in 1959 , the title of Outstanding Scientist of the People . The following year she retired . In 1972 , Hertwig moved to Villingen-Schwenningen in the Black Forest . In June of the same year , the Faculty of Medicine of Heidelberg University awarded her an honorary doctorate . Hertwig is one of the founders of radiation genetics alongside Emmy Stein . Hertwig-Weyers syndrome , which describes oligodactyly in humans as a result of radiation exposure , is named after her and her colleague , Helmut Weyers . Hertwig died in Villingen-Schwenningen on 31 March 1983 . Selected works . - Durch Radiumbestrahlung verursachte Entwicklung von halbkernigen Triton- und Fischembryonen , 1916 - Ein neuer Fall von multiplen Allelomorphismus bei Antirrhinum , 1926 - Handbuch der Vererbungswissenschaft . III , A . u . C , Partielle Keimesschädigungen durch RAdium und Röntgenstrahlen , 1927 - Die genetischen Grundlagen der Röntgenmutation , 1932 - Energiehaushalt : besondere Einflüsse auf Ernährung und Stoffwechsel , 1932 - Die künstliche Erzeugung von Mutationen und ihre theoretischen und praktischen Auswirkungen , 1932 - Handbuch der Ernahrung und des Stoffwechsels der Landwirtschaftlichen Nutztiere als Grundlagen der Futterungslehre . 4 , Energiehaushalt . besondere Einflusse auf Ernahrung und Stoffwechsel , 1932 - Geschlechtsgebundene und autosomale Koppelungen bei Hühnern , 1933 - Deutsche Gesellschaft Vererbungswissenschaft : Bericht über die .. . Jahresversammlung Im Auftrage der Gesellschaft herausgegeben von Paula Hertwig. , 1934 - Erbanlage und Umwelt , 1934 - Der Alkohol in seiner Wirkung auf die Fortpflanzungszellen , 1935 - Artbastarde bei Tieren , 1936 - Handbuch der Vererbungswissenschaft , 1936 - Strahlenschäden und Strahlenschutz im zellulären Bereich , 1957 - Anpassung , Vererbung und Evolution. , 1959 - Differences in the development capabilities of F₁ mice after x-raying of spermatogoniia and mature and immature spermatozoa , 1959 References . Bibliography . - Gerstengarbe , Sybille : Paula Hertwig : Geneticist in the 20th century ; a search for clues ( series Acta Historica Leopoldina ) , Stuttgart : Scientific Publishing Society 2012 , . - Herbst , Andreas ( ed. ) , Winfried Ranke , Jürgen Winkler : Thats how the GDR worked . Volume 1 : Encyclopedia of Organizations and Institutions , Departmental Union Leadership , League for International Friendships ( = rororo Manual , Vol . 6348 ) . Rowohlt , Reinbek at Hamburg 1994 , , p 190 .