Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
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E-mail: coertzen@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Title: | Dr. |
Prename: | Emmy |
Surname: | Klieneberger-Nobel |
Name of birth: | Klieneberger |
Profession: | Microbiologist |
Birthday: | 02/25/1892 |
Place of birth: | Frankfurt/M. |
Date of death: | 09/11/1985 |
Married since: | 1944 |
Married to: | Edmund Nobel |
Profession husband: | pediatrician |
Education: | 1911 women teachers’ examination; 1913 final high school examinations (*Abitur*) and university studies (botany, zoology, mathematics, physics) in Göttingen; 1917 doctorate in Frankfurt; 1918 qualification for high school teaching; 1919 state teaching examination |
Career: | 1919–22 high school teacher in Dresden; 1922–30 microbiologist at the municipal Hygiene Institute in Frankfurt; 1930 university lecturer qualification (*Habilitation*); from 1930 lecturer; 1933 forced retirement without pension; 1933 emigrates to London, stays at Crosby Hall; 1934 British Federation of University Women (BFUW) German Scholar Crosby Hall Residential Fellowship; 1933–62 research at the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine, London |
Memberships: | Until 1933 German Federation of University Women (DAB); German Society for Hygiene and Microbiology; 1967 honorary member of the Robert Koch Institute, 1967 corresponding member of the German Society for Bacteriology and Hygiene (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Bakteriologie und Hygiene) |
Biographical literature: | Johanna Bleker and Sabine Schleiermacher, *Ärztinnen aus dem Kaiserreich. Lebensläufe einer Generation* (Weinheim: Deutscher Studien-Verlag, 2000), 266–7; Gary E. Rice, “Emmy Klieneberger-Nobel (1892–1985),” in *Women in the Biological Sciences. A Biobibliographic Sourcebook*, ed. Louise S. Grinstein, Carol A. Biermann, and Rose K. Rose (Westport, CN: Greenwood, 1997), 261–5 |
Major works: | *Über die Größe und Beschaffenheit der Zellkerne mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Systematik* (diss.; Dresden, Heinrich, 1917); *Pleuropneumonia-like organisms <PPLO> mycoplasmataceae* (London: Academic Press, 1962); *Memoirs* (London: Academic Press, 1980) |
Links: | [obituary, Pathological Society of Great Britain and Ireland](http://jmm.sgmjournals.org/content/22/2/183.full.pdf) |