translated from Spanish: Who was Hedwig Kohn, the physical Jewish pioneer who fled nazi Germany

due to his ancestry j udia, Kohn was removed from his position and was forced to leave Germany during the nazi regime.
After emigrating to Sweden, he managed to get a visa for the United States, where settled, taught physics at several respected universities and died in 1964.
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Despite the obstacles for the study of women in the Germany of prewar, in 1907, became the second woman to enter the Department of Physics of the University of Breslau, where he was a student of the prominent physicist Otto Lummer, a specialist in optics and heat radiation.
He received his Ph.d. in 1913, she was appointed Assistant Lummer and received his “Habilitation”, or qualification to teach at the University, in 1930.
Hedwig Kohn broke gender barriers being only one among three women qualified to teach physics in the Germany of the preguerraDebido regulations of the nazi regime that forbade Jews to work in the service of the Government, Hedwig Kohn was removed from his post in 1933.
Although he could survive independent of the lighting industry contracts, their situation became increasingly precarious and dangerous, and was about to fall victim to the Holocaust.
The scientists who escaped from the nazis managed to emigrate to Sweden, in 1940, and finally obtained a visa for USA where settled and taught in the College’s women of the University of North Carolina, in Greensboro, and then at Wellesley College in Massachusetts.
After retiring in 1952, she was invited as an assistant researcher in physics from Duke University, in North Carolina, where he established a laboratory and worked until almost the end of his life, in 1964.
The confession of Einstein that reveal new physical manuscripts published in an interview in 1962 with the historian and American physicist Thomas Kuhn, Hedwig Kohn spoke about the difficulties faced by women to achieve a degree in Physics.
When he joined the University as the second woman in the Department of Physics of the University of Breslau, they not granted official registration and only allowed him to attend as a ‘guest student’, it said.
Although that status not allowed to graduate, the situation changed and failed to get his degree.
However, when the time came to get his “Habilitation”, became aware that that status was reserved for men. He had to wait many years before being officially qualified to teach.

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