Clara von Simson

Clara von Simson (born 4 October 1897 in Rome, died 26 January 1983 in Berlin) was a habilitated natural scientist, German politician (FDP) and a member of the Berlin House of Representatives.

Biography Clara von Simson, the daughter of Georg von Simson, a Berlin banker, and a great-granddaughter of the temporary president of the Frankfurt National Assembly in 1848/49, Eduard von Simson. She attended a private schooling, followed by a Höhere Töchterschule and an English college. From 1927 to 1930, she was an assistant at the Physical Chemistry Institute in Berlin. Furthermore, a street in Berlin-Charlottenburg in the Spreebogen is named after her. Furthermore, an association to promote the Lette Association is named after her.

Publications

Roentgen-Untersuchungen an Amalgamen (Diss., Berlin, 1923)

Lehrbuch der Physik für die Oberschule (with Paul Schauff; Berlin: Volk u. Wissen, 1949 “Über die Wärmeleitfähigkeit des Ammoniumchlorids im Bereiche seiner II-III-Umwandlung”, in: Naturwissenschaften 38, Nr. 24 (1951), S. 559