Hildegard Stücklen

She worked initially as a lecturer and tutor in Switzerland in the 1930s and later moved to teach at women colleges in Massachusetts and Virginia after emigrating to the United States.

[1] In 1934 she emigrated to the United States with the help of the Swiss Association of University Women and a National Research Council Fellowship.

Stücklen taught at the Mount Holyoke women's college in South Hadley, Massachusetts until 1939.

[1] She retired in 1956 but spent four more years as chairman of the Wilson College Physics Faculty in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.

In the US, she collaborated frequently with Hertha Sponer, who had an experimental laboratory at Duke University, not far from Sweet Briar College.