Ilse Rosenthal-Schneider, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ilse Rosenthal-Schneider

German-Australian physicist and philosopher

Date of Birth: 25-Apr-1891

Place of Birth: Finsterwalde, Brandenburg, Germany

Date of Death: 06-Feb-1990

Profession: physicist, philosopher

Nationality: Australia

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Ilse Rosenthal-Schneider (25 April 1891 – 6 February 1990) was a German-Australian physicist and philosopher.
She is best known for her collaboration and correspondence with physicists Albert Einstein, Max von Laue, and Max Planck.
Rosenthal-Schneider earned a PhD in philosophy in 1920 at the University of Berlin, where she first met Albert Einstein.
After leaving Nazi Germany and emigrating to Australia in 1938, she became a tutor in the German department at the University of Sydney in 1945 and taught history and philosophy of science.
In the 1940s and 1950s, she exchanged a series of letters with Albert Einstein about philosophical aspects of physics, such as theory of relativity, fundamental constants and physical reality.
She remained in contact with Einstein through correspondence until the death of Einstein in 1955.