Hilda Hänchen

Short description: German physicist

Hilda Hänchen

Born| (1919-09-01)1 September 1919

Hamburg, Weimar Republic

Died| 19 October 2013(2013-10-19) (aged 94)

Cologne, Germany

Citizenship| Germany
Alma mater| University of Hamburg
Known for| Goos-Hänchen effect
Spouse(s)| Albert Hermann Lindberg (m. 1946)
Children| 3 daughters
Scientific career
Fields| Physics
Institutions| State Physics Institute in Hamburg,
Physical-Chemical Research Institute in Kiel,
Reichsforschungsrat ("Reich Research Council")
Thesis| Über das Eindringen des totalreflektierten Lichtes in das dünnere Medium ("On the penetration of totally reflected light into the rarer medium") (1943)
Doctoral advisor| Fritz Goos

Hilda Hänchen (later Hilda Lindberg or Hilda Lindberg-Hänchen, 1 September 1919 - 19 October 2013) was a German physicist.[1]

## Life and work

Hilda Hänchen received her doctorate in 1943 from the University of Hamburg under the supervision of Fritz Goos, with a dissertation titled Über das Eindringen des totalreflektierten Lichtes in das dünnere Medium ("On the penetration of totally reflected light into the rarer medium"). During World War II she worked as a "managing" research assistant at the State Physics Institute in Hamburg (to allow male academics to return after military service, women could be employed as managing assistants only).[2] She concurrently worked at the Physical-Chemical Research Institute in Kiel on war research contracts and was listed in the register of sponsorships of the Reichsforschungsrat ("Reich Research Council").[2] From 1949 to 1951 she was a referee for the chemistry journal Chemisches Zentralblatt.[3] Around 1975 she was the chairman of the local Cologne chapter of Deutscher Akademikerinnenbund ("Association of German women academics").[4]

With her doctoral advisor Fritz Goos, Hänchen discovered the Goos-Hänchen effect, which is an optical phenomenon in which linearly polarized light undergoes a small lateral shift when totally internally reflected.

In 1946 she married physicist Albert Hermann Lindberg (born 1914), who before his retirement in 1979 served as the Vice President and Development Director of Leybold AG.[5] They had three daughters - Renate, Claudia, and Dorothea.

## Publications

* Hänchen, Hilda (1943). "Über das Eindringen des totalreflektierten Lichtes in das dünnere Medium" (in de). Dissertation, University of Hamburg, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences.
* Goos, Fritz; Hänchen, Hilda (1943). "Über das Eindringen des totalreflektierten Lichtes in das dünnere Medium" (in de). Annalen der Physik 435 (5): 383–392. doi:10.1002/andp.19434350504.
* Goos, Fritz; Hänchen, Hilda (1947). "Ein neuer und fundamentaler Versuch zur Totalreflexion" (in de). Annalen der Physik 436 (6): 333–346. doi:10.1002/andp.19474360704. http://cds.cern.ch/record/322991/files/CM-P00100636.pdf.
* Goos, Fritz; Hänchen, Hilda (1949). "Neumessung des Strahlversetzungseffektes bei Totalreflexion" (in de). Annalen der Physik 440 (6): 251–252. doi:10.1002/andp.19494400312.

## References

1. ↑ Hilda Lindberg, geb. Hänchen (Hilda Lindberg, née Hänchen"), Cologne: Zeitungsgruppe, November 2, 2013, http://www.wirtrauern.de/Traueranzeige/Hilda-Lindberg, retrieved 25 December 2013
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Renneberg, Monika (1991). "Die Physik und die physikalischen Institute an der Hamburger Universität im "Dritten Reich".". in Eckart Krause (in de). Hochschulalltag im „Dritten Reich“. Die Hamburger Universität 1933–1945 ("Higher education in the "Third Reich": Hamburg University 1933-1945"). 3. Berlin and Hamburg: Dietrich Reimer Verlag. pp. 1097–1118. ISBN 3-496-00867-9.
3. ↑ "Authors and patents for years 1949-1951". Chemisches Zentralblatt.
4. ↑ "Handbuch deutscher Frauenorganisationen" (in de). Handbuch deutscher Frauenorganisationen (3 ed.). Bonn-Bad Godesberg: Deutscher Frauenrat ("German Women's Council"). 1975. pp. 27, 265.
5. ↑ "Lindberg, Albert Hermann" (in de). Wer ist wer? ("Who's who?") (47 ed.). Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild Verlag. 2008. pp. 786. ISBN 978-3-7950-2046-0.

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