Herta Regina Leng

Herta Regina Leng (24 February 1903 – 17 July 1997) was a physicist and educator.

Herta Regina Leng, physicist and educator

Leng was born on 24 February 1903 in Vienna, Austria. She was the daughter of Arthur Leng and Paula Leng, and sister of Leopold Ignaz Leng. Leng fled Austria in 1939 and eventually immigrated to the United States in 1940. She died on 17 July 1997 in Troy, New York.

Purdue and RPI

Dr. Karl Lark-Horovitz, professor of physics at Purdue, had a keen interest in the development of the cyclotron and the application of physical techniques to solve biological problems, and sought to develop methods that utilized radioactive tracers produced from the cyclotron. With the assistance of Leng and Donald Tendam, radioactive tracers were employed following an intense regimen to develop these methods. Key studies concerned sodium and potassium in the human body and their uptake, distribution and excretion; sodium and potassium distribution in human blood cells; and the analysis of enteric coatings for medications.[1][2][3] Leng was awarded an American Association of University Women fellowship for work at Purdue. The fellowship permitted her the freedom to pursue the pioneer research on radioactive tracer materials.

In 1943, Leng moved to New York City to accept a faculty appointment in physics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and in 1966 was promoted to become RPI's first female full professor.[4]

Professional associations

Awards and honors

Every year, RPI honors Leng with the Herta Leng Memorial Lecture Series.[5]

Select publications
  • Adsorptionsversuche an Gläsern and Filtersubstanzen nach der Methode der radioaktiven Indikatoren.[6] (Adsorption experiments on glasses and filter substances according to the method of radioactive indicators.)
  • Radioactive indicators, enteric coatings and intestinal absorption.[2]
  • A new method of testing enteric coatings.[3]
  • On the Existence of Single Magnetic Poles.[7]
  • Pioneer woman in nuclear science.[8]
gollark: Or started out having some kind of issue.
gollark: > only people who dont succeed in America are the ones who dont tryAlso people who are just randomly unlucky for whatever reason.
gollark: Law enforcement should be held to *very* high standards since they're granted the power to legally go around harming people, especially law enforcement which is armed lots.
gollark: There's also some project called /e/, which is not very smart as it's impossible to search for, which sells refurbished phones with Android without Google stuff.
gollark: Also, you *can* just reflash the OS on at least some Android phones.

References
  1. Gartenhaus, Solomon, & Tubis, Arnold, & Cassidy, David & Bray, Ralph. (2015). A History of Physics at Purdue: The War Period (1941-1945). Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.
  2. Lark-Horovitz, Karl, & Leng, Herta R. (1941). Radioactive indicators, enteric coatings and intestinal absorption. Nature. 147: 580-581.
  3. Lark‐Horovitz, K., & Leng, H. R. (1942). A new method of testing enteric coatings. Journal of the American Pharmaceutical Association. 31(4): 99-102.
  4. LaFollette, Marcel Chotkowski. (10 March 2010). Publicity, Politics, and Physics. The Bigger Picture. Smithsonian Institution Archives. Washington, D.C.
  5. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-09-10. Retrieved 2015-08-09.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. Leng, Herta. (1927). Adsorptionsversuche an Gläsern and Filtersubstanzen nach der Methode der radioaktiven Indikatoren. Sitzungsber. Akad. Wiss. Wien (Ila), 136, 19-42.
  7. Benedikt, E. T., & Leng, H. R. (1947). On the Existence of Single Magnetic Poles. Physical Review. 71(7): 454.
  8. Leng, H. R. (1991). Pioneer woman in nuclear science. American Journal of Physics, 59(7): 584-584.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.