{"id":603,"date":"2012-09-15T14:30:52","date_gmt":"2012-09-15T21:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bitingduckpress.com\/?p=603"},"modified":"2020-11-24T18:44:51","modified_gmt":"2020-11-25T02:44:51","slug":"hedwigkohn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitingduckpress.com\/?p=603","title":{"rendered":"Coming 2016: A Passion for Physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our first signed title for Spring 2014 is a biography of physicist Hedwig Kohn, entitled Hedwig Kohn: A Passion for Physics, by Brenda P. Winnewisser.Hedwig Kohn (1887-1964) was one of the pioneer women in physics, not only in Germany. She was the third, and last,<br \/>\nwoman to attain the Habilitation (quali\fcation for a professorship, and for formal lectures in the German-speaking part of Europe) up to WWII, the two others being Lise Meitner and Hertha Sponer. All three of them fled Germany. Kohn was a respected experimental physicist, well-known in Germany between the two World Wars, and a dedicated and eff\u000bective teacher, but this is the first full-length story of her life. The biography is not primarily a history of science. It is primarily a social or cultural history of a scientist, how she contributed to the history of science, how both science and history impacted her life, and how she dealt with the challenges. See an interview with the author <a title=\"BW\" href=\"http:\/\/wunc.org\/tsot\/archive\/Hedwig_Kohn.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our first signed title for Spring 2014 is a biography of physicist Hedwig Kohn, entitled Hedwig Kohn: A Passion for Physics, by Brenda P. Winnewisser.Hedwig Kohn (1887-1964) was one of the pioneer women in physics, not only in Germany. She was the third, and last,<br \/> woman to attain the Habilitation (quali\fcation for a professorship, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18,5,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitingduckpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitingduckpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitingduckpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitingduckpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitingduckpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=603"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/bitingduckpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1326,"href":"https:\/\/bitingduckpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions\/1326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitingduckpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitingduckpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitingduckpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}