[3] During this time, Lotte worked with Walther Nernst in regards to the Photo-Induced Chain Reaction of Chlorine and Hydrogen.
They looked to find the mechanism for why this reactions is able to produce a large quantum yield.
By law, as a civil servant, she was required to relinquish her position to a returning man, in this case Dr. Kurt Bennwitz.
In addition, she gave up her career in favor of her husband, the physical chemist Max Volmer.
[2] Lotte and Max knew and socialized with the physicist Lise Meitner and the chemist Otto Hahn from the 1920s onwards.