Franziska Seidl
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1 July 1892
- Austria (from 1892)
- Czechoslovakia (from 1918)
Franziska Seidl | |
|---|---|
| Born | Franziska Vicari 1 July 1892 |
| Died | 14 June 1983 (aged 90) Vienna, Austria |
| Citizenship |
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| Alma mater | University of Vienna |
| Spouse |
Wenzel Seidl
(m. 1911; died 1916) |
| Awards | Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria (1968) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
| Doctoral advisor | Ernst Lecher |
Franziska Seidl (née Vicari; 1 July 1892 – 14 June 1983) was an Austrian physicist. She was professor for experimental physics at the University of Vienna. One of her main research areas was ultrasound.
Franziska was born in Vienna to Franz and Maria Vicari, née Anton, who were proprietors of a small business. She attended primary and secondary school and received musical education. In 1911, she married Wenzel Seidl (born 1881 in České Budějovice, Bohemia), a physics and mathematics teacher at a gymnasium in Hranice, Moravia. They lived in Hranice until Wenzel was conscripted in World War I, and died in 1916 at the Isonzo Front.[1][2]
After the dissolution of Austria-Hungary, Seidl became a citizen of Czechoslovakia. She returned to Vienna, took the Matura (the secondary school exit exam) in 1918, and began to study at the University of Vienna in the same year. Her main subject was physics, with secondary subjects as mathematics and chemistry. She wrote her doctoral thesis on measuring short time intervals with the Helmholtz pendulum, and earned her doctorate in physics in 1923.[1][2]
Seidl became assistant professor in 1924 and qualified as a professor for experimental physics in 1933. She took over as interim head of the First Physics Institute in 1945 until Felix Ehrenhaft returned from emigration in 1947. She became emeritus in 1963.[1][2]
