Doris Schachner

Doris (Elfriede) Schachner (née Korn; 30 May 1904 in Bockwa near Zwickau – 1 April 1988 in Heidelberg) was the first female German professor for Mineralogy and Honorary Senator of the RWTH Aachen University.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Photograph of Doris Schachner (fair use only)

Life

Schachner studied mineralogy at the universities in Heidelberg, Freiburg i. Br., and Innsbruck.^[1] She completed her doctorate at the Heidelberg University in 1928 and she completed her habilitation at the TH Aachen in 1933.^[1] From 1933 to 1940, she was a lecturer at the TH Aachen.^[1] At the end of the second world war (from 1941 to 1945), she worked at the Brno University of Technology.^[7] In 1946, she returned to Aachen.^[7] In 1948, she became an extraordinary professor at the TH Aachen.^[1] From 1949 to 1972, she was an ordinary professor at the TH Aachen.^[1] Based on her initiative, the Institute of Crystallography at the TH Aachen was founded in 1963.^[2][8] In 1984, she became a Honorary Senator at the TH Aachen.^[1] Her daughter Melitta Schachner Camartin was a professor for neurobiology at the University of Hamburg.^[7]

Research

Schachner was a pioneer in ore microscopy.^[9]

Awards

She was a Honorary Senator of the RWTH Aachen University.^[2][3] Two minerals are named after her: Schachnerite and Para-Schachnerite.^[9][10] A street in Aachen is named after her.

Selected publications

• Korn, Doris (1928). Tektonische und gefügeanalytische Untersuchungen im Grundgebirge des Böllsteiner Odenwaldes. Heidelberg: Schweizerbart.
• Schachner-Korn, Doris (1948-07-01). "Ein metamorphes Erzgefüge". Heidelberger Beiträge zur Mineralogie und Petrographie (in German). 1 (4): 407–426. Bibcode:1948BeiMP...1..407S. doi:10.1007/BF01104123. ISSN 1432-0967.
• Schachner-Korn,Doris (1954-03-01). "Ein Wachstums- und ein Rekristallisationsgefüge von Bleiglanz aus einer rheinischen Lagerstätte". Tschermaks Mineralogische und Petrographische Mitteilungen (in German). 4 (1–4): 111–116. Bibcode:1954MinPe...4..111S. doi:10.1007/BF01140381. ISSN 1438-1168.