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]}

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.

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