Lotte Pusch

Lotte Pusch was born on 7 August 1890 in Reichenbach/O.L. and was a German physical chemist. She was of the Protestant denomination. Her father was a District Court Director.

Education Pusch visited secondary schools in Pleß, Glogau (now Głogów, Poland), and Görlitz before deciding to attend the Mädchen-Realgymnasium Chamissoschule school in Schönberg. During her first two semesters, she focused on mathematics, physics, and chemistry. During this time, Lotte worked with Walther Nernst in regards to the Photo-Induced Chain Reaction of Chlorine and Hydrogen. They looked to find the mechanism for why this reactions is able to produce a large quantum yield. She held the position until 1920. By law, as a civil servant, she was required to relinquish her position to a returning man, in this case Dr. Kurt Bennwitz. In addition, she gave up her career in favor of her husband, the physical chemist Max Volmer. Lotte also documented some of these conversations between Lise and Max.

Selected literature Lotte Pusch Über die Zeitreaktion bei der Neutralisation der Kohlensäure und die wahre Dissoziationskonstante der Kohlensäure PhD thesis, Universität, Berlin, 1916. 37 pp. (29 March 1916) Lotte Pusch Über die Zeitreaktion bei der Neutralisation der Kohlensäure und die wahre Dissoziationskonstante der Kohlensäure, Zeitsch. Elektrochem. Volume 22, Issues 11/12, 206–212 (1916) Lotte Pusch Nachtrag zu meiner Arbeit: Über die Zeitreaktion bei der Neutralisation der Kohlensäure und die wahre Dissoziationskonstante der Kohlenäure, Zeitsch. Elektrochem. Volume 22, Issues 15/16, 293 (1916) Lotte Pusch Zur Anwendung des Einsteinschen photochemischen Äquivalentgesetzes. II., Zeitsch. Elektrochem. Volume 24, 336 – 339 (1918)