Iris Runge
| Iris Anna Runge | |
|---|---|
| Born |
1 June 1888 Hanover, German Empire |
| Died | 27 January 1966 (aged 77) Ulm, West Germany |
| Residence | Germany |
| Citizenship | German |
| Fields | Applied mathematics, physics |
| Institutions | Ludwig Maximilians University, Osram, Telefunken, Technical University of Berlin, Humboldt University of Berlin |
| Alma mater | University of Göttingen |
| Thesis | Über Diffusion im festen Zustande ("On diffusion in the solid state") (1921) |
| Doctoral advisor | Gustav Tammann |
| Other academic advisors | Arnold Sommerfeld |
Iris Anna Runge (1 June 1888 – 27 January 1966) was a German applied mathematician and physicist.
Iris Runge was the eldest of six children of mathematician Carl Runge. She started studying physics, mathematics, and geography at the University of Göttingen in 1907, with the aim of becoming a teacher. At that time, she only attended the lectures, since women were not allowed to formally study at Prussian universities till 1908–09. She attended lectures given by her father and spent a semester at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich working with Arnold Sommerfeld, which led to her first publication, Anwendungen der Vektorrechnung auf die Grundlagen der Geometrischen Optik ("Applications of vector calculations to the fundamentals of geometric optics") in Annalen der Physik ("Annals of Physics"). After passing her state exams (higher teachers' exam) in 1912, she taught at several schools (Lyzeum Göttingen, Oberlyzeum Kippenberg near Bremen). She went back to the university in 1918 to study chemistry. She took the supplementary examination for teachers in 1920. In 1920, she worked as a teacher at Schule Schloss Salem. She received her doctorate in 1921 under the supervision of Gustav Tammann, with a dissertation titled Über Diffusion im festen Zustande ("On diffusion in the solid state"). As a student, she was a personal assistant to Leonard Nelson. During the political upheaval in Germany after the First World War she was active in the election campaign of the Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (Social Democratic Party of Germany, SPD), which at that time implemented women's suffrage in Germany. She joined the party in 1929.
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