caption doctoral_advisor death_date death_place birth_place nationality field birth_date known_for prizes article_title name
arnold durig marietta blau 25 march 1950 vienna , austria vienna , austria-hungary austrian physicist 9 march 1903 research on cosmic rays lieben prize 1937 hertha wambacher
 hertha wambacher
hertha wambacher

hertha wambacher -lrb- 9 march 1903 in vienna - 25 april 1950 in vienna -rrb- was an austrian physicist .
after having obtained the general certificate of education from the girls ' high school run by the association for the extended education of women in 1922 , she studied first chemistry , then physics at the university of vienna .
wambacher 's dissertation at the 2nd physics institute was supervised by marietta blau , with whom wambacher continued to collaborate also after her ph. d. graduation in 1932 .
the cooperation of the two women referred to the photographic method of detecting ionizing particles .
for their methodical studies at the institute for radium research of the austrian academy of sciences in vienna , blau and wambacher received the lieben prize of the austrian academy of sciences in 1937 .
also in 1937 , blau and wambacher jointly discovered `` disintegration stars '' in photographic plates that had been exposed to cosmic radiation at an altitude of 2300 m above sea level .
these stars are the patterns of particle tracks from nuclear reactions -lrb- spallation events -rrb- of cosmic-ray particles with nuclei of the photographic emulsion .
after blau had to leave austria in 1938 , hertha wambacher continued working on the identification of particles from nuclear reactions of cosmic rays with the emulsion constituents .
with this work , she obtained her university teaching certification in 1940 .
she taught classes at the university of vienna .
in 1945 , wambacher who -- according to her own words -- had belonged to the nsdap since 1934 , was removed from the university of vienna .
she was detained in russia and is said to have returned only in 1946 .
she contracted cancer , but was still able to work in a research laboratory in vienna .
wambacher died from cancer on 25 april 1950 .
