Lucy Mensing

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Why Is Lucy Mensing Influential?

According to Wikipedia, Lucy Mensing , later Mensing-Schütz or Schütz, was a German physicist and a pioneer of quantum mechanics. Scientific career Mensing studied mathematics, physics and chemistry at the University of Hamburg. During her studies she specialized in theoretical physics. In 1923/24 she wrote a thesis in which she applied the older quantum hypothesis based on Bohr-Sommerfeld's theory, which assumes electron trajectories, to diatomic molecules. This work was published in the Zeitschrift für Physik in 1925. In 1925 she received her doctorate under Wilhelm Lenz with a thesis on the influence of electric fields on the width of spectral lines.

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