Fanny Moser (scientist)

For the very wealthy Swiss baroness, see Fanny Moser (baroness).

Fanny Moser, also known as Fanny Hoppe-Moser, (27 May 1872 – 24 February 1953) was a Swiss-German zoologist.

Fanny Moser
Born	(1872-05-27)May 27, 1872
Died	February 24, 1953(1953-02-24) (aged 80)
Nationality	Swiss-German
Other names	Fanny Hoppe-Moser
Education	University of Freiburg
Known for	First female student to register at the University of Freiburg
Spouse	Jaroslav Hoppe
Scientific career
Fields	Zoology
Thesis	(1902)

Her father Johan-Heinrich Moser was an engineer and built the Moser dam in Schaffhausen. In 1896 Fanny Moser became the first female student to register at the University of Freiburg,^[1] where she studied medicine. She then began studying zoology in Munich and received her doctorate in 1902, specialising in the developmental history of the vertebrate lung.^[2] In 1903 she married the composer Jaroslav Hoppe.^[3] They moved to Berlin and Moser began her international research, which included identifying nine new species, most notably the cold-water southern physonect Pyrostephos vanhoeffeni that was collected from the South Pole expedition for the Museum of Natural History in Berlin.^[4][5] The prince of Monaco commissioned her to work on his zoological deep sea collection.^[6]

She became involved with parapsychology in 1914, releasing a work on the topic in 1935.^[7]