Lucy Mensing

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Full name
Lucy Luise Martha Mensing

Married name
Lucy Schütz

Born
March 11, 1901, in Hamburg, Germany

Died
April 28, 1995, in Meiningen, Germany

Education
Mensing studied physics at the University of Hamburg under Wilhelm Lenz and worked closely there with Wolfgang Pauli. She received her PhD in March 1925.

Career
Between 1925 and 1928, Mensing held a series of short-term positions at the University of Göttingen, the University of Hamburg, and the University of Tübingen. Her work focused mainly on applications of quantum theory to problems in molecular physics, but her career in physics ended not long after she married fellow physicist Wilhelm Schütz in 1928.

Acknowledgements
Michel Janssen and his collaborators on the Women in History of Quantum Physics project would like to thank Dr. Dorothea Roloff, Lucy Schütz-Mensing’s youngest daughter, for allowing us to post manuscripts and photographs of her mother and, more generally, for providing much of the biographical information used here.

Cite this resource
Michel Janssen, “Lucy Mensing,” American Institute of Physics, 2025. http://www.aip.org/history/lucy-mensing.