Elisabeth Bormann

Elisabeth Ottilie Marianne Bormann (May 12, 1895 – August 1986) was an Austrian physicist and assistant to Max Born.

After completing her high school training, she enrolled in an undergraduate course in mathematics and the University of Vienna.

[1] In 1919 Bormann joined the Institut für Theoretische Physik, where she worked as an assistant to Max Born.

Working with Born in 1920, Bormann was the first to measure the free path of atoms in gases and the size of molecules.

[1] Bormann started her independent scientific career at the Siemens-Schuckert, where she studied cable technology.