Mathilde Carmen Hertz | |
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Born | |
Died | November 20, 1975 | (aged 84)
Alma mater | Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich |
Father | Heinrich Hertz |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Biology Comparative psychology |
Institutions | Kaiser Wilhelm Institute Cambridge University |
Mathilde Carmen Hertz (14 January 1891 – 20 November 1975) was a biologist, and was one of the first influential women scientists in the field of biology and a pioneer in the field of comparative psychology. Working in Germany, her career started to unravel in 1933 due to her Jewish ancestry.[1] She was the younger daughter of the famous physicist Heinrich Rudolf Hertz.