Nachweis schwerer Edelgase in Helium

Designing (for) a new scientific discipline: the location and architecture of the Institut für Radiumforschung in early twentieth-century Vienna

“…91 From the Pettersson-Karlik correspondence we also learn that Karlik ' had locked the room so that only a ''Funktionä r'' could have entered', 92 and later that Przibram ' could hear the pump running in my room all the time '. 93 At the Radium Institute there was, furthermore, no confusion over responsibility for keeping space and equipment neat for the next user or over the ownership of instruments and laboratory benches. From several of the institute's publications it becomes obvious that possessiveness concerning instruments was clearly acknowledged and respected by personnel.…”

“…Mattauch belongs already quite to the family. 100 Franziska Seidl was one of the few women who, as early as 1923, worked as wissenschaftlicher Hilfskraft (scientific assistant) at the first Physics Institute and in 1924 she was promoted to the position of Assistentin (assistant). 101 After her habilitation in experimental physics in 1932 Seidl became Privatdozentin (private lecturer) at the University of Vienna, teaching a course every semester from 1933 onwards.…”