Katharina Boll-Dornberger (2 November 1909 – 27 July 1981), also known as Käte Dornberger-Schiff, was an Austrian-German physicist and crystallographer.
[1][3][4][5][6] Katharina Boll-Dornberger was born in Vienna in 1909 as the daughter of the university professor Walter Karl [de] and Alice Friederike (Gertrude) Schiff.
[8] She wrote her dissertation under supervision of V. M. Goldschmidt on the crystal structure of water-free zinc sulfate in Göttingen and handed it in in Vienna in 1934.
[8] In England, she worked with John D. Bernal, Nevill F. Mott, and Dorothy Hodgkin.
Starting in 1948, she was the head of a department at the Institut für Biophysik at the German Academy of Sciences at Berlin.