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Hertha (Dorothea Elisabeth) Sponer
(1 Sep 1895 - 17 Feb 1968)
German physicist who became James Franck's assistant at Göttingen University in 1932, whom she married in 1946. Her research contributed to modern quantum mechanics and molecular physics.
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Science Quotes by Hertha (Dorothea Elisabeth) Sponer (1)
Von Theorie wild man nicht heller.
Gott geb' täglich unsern Teller.
When theory's light is less than stellar.
Give us, O Lord, our daily Teller.
This rhyme from an alphabet ditty describing various physicists was written for a party at Göttingen.
Gott geb' täglich unsern Teller.
When theory's light is less than stellar.
Give us, O Lord, our daily Teller.
This rhyme from an alphabet ditty describing various physicists was written for a party at Göttingen.
— Hertha (Dorothea Elisabeth) Sponer
Quoted in Edward Teller with Judith L. Shoolery, Memoirs: A Twentieth-Century Journey in Science and Politics (2001), 75. The first phrase, translated more literally than poetically, is given as, 'When theory does not enlighten us,' in Nina Byers and Gary Williams, Out of the Shadows (2006),130.
