[5][6] One of her most notable contributions to inorganic chemistry was her work on the synthesis and structure of poly(sulfur nitride), which was later discovered to be the first non-metallic superconductor.

[7][8] For her success in editing the Gmelins Handbuch der anorganischen Chemie, she received the Gmelin-Beilstein memorial coin.

[2] Due to the destruction after the second world war, she had to write her first lecture notes based on her memory and test experiments in the chemistry laboratory.

[2][4] She helped initiate a predecessor of BAFöG, a law that regulates state support for the education of students in Germany.

[2] As a rector, she forbade Horst Mahler who was involved in the German student movement, from speaking at the university.

[4] The movement and the resulting riots largely stopped the university reforms that she had initiated to deal with the financial problems and defects in buildings in the first years of increased student enrollment.

[6][10] Her work on tetrasulfur tetranitride (S4N4) started decades of research on this unusual and highly reactive inorganic heterocycle.

[10] Extensive investigations were also carried out on the reactions of PCl5 to phosphorus nitride chlorides (e.g. P3NCl12),[14][15][16] whereby several intermediate stages could be isolated and characterized.

[2] For her work on the Gmelins Handbuch der anorganischen Chemie, she was awarded the Gmelin-Beilsteil Memorial Coin in 1980.