Famous People with Name Hertha

Hertha Thiele            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Hertha Thiele: was a German actress. She is noted for her starring roles in controversial stage plays and films produced during Germany's Weimar Republic and the early years of the Third Reich. Thiele later became a television star in East Germany. She is most widely remembered for her portrayal of Manuela in the groundbreaking 1931 lesbian-themed film Mädchen in Uniform.

Hertha Sponer            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Hertha Sponer: was a German physicist and chemist who contributed to modern quantum mechanics and molecular physics and was the first woman on the physics faculty of Duke University. During her time at the University of Tübingen she was an assistant of James Franck. In 1921 she, along with a few others, was among the first women to obtain a Ph.D. in Physics in Germany along with the right to teach science at a German University. In October 1925 she received a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship to stay at University of California, Berkeley, where she remained for a year.[1] During her time at Berkeley, she collaborated with R. T. Birge, developing what is now called the Birge-Sponer method for determining dissociation energies.[2]