Erna Hamburger

[4] In 1933, Hamburger received an engineering-electrician diploma from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.

[4] In 1957, Hamburger was appointed as the first woman in the history of Switzerland to be named professor at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.

When this occurred, the president of the school, Maurice Cosandey, announced, "It is both a brilliant consecration and a measure of the backwardness that characterizes our country as regards the promotion of women.

This research included topics such as a system of optical registration from tone frequencies and ultra-short waves.

[3] Shortly after her death, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne Women in Science and Humanities Foundation was created.