National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Hanna von Hoerner was born in Görlitz in 1942. Her father was the astrophysicist Sebastian von Hoerner. With his help and encouragement she repaired radios when she was six and built an oscilloscope at the age of fourteen. In the early 1960s, after finishing her "Abitur", (high school or secondary school,) her father moved to the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in the US. Von Hoerner completed an electronics education in the United States and worked as a research assistant at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory.