Technikatörténeti szemle 23. (1997-98)

TANULMÁNYOK - Vámos Éva Katalin: Women’s Opportunities of Studying and Practising Engineering in Hungary from 1895 to 1968 (On the example of Budapest Technical University and its women students)

b) Women's place in the hierarchy of the Technical University for Building and Transport Engineering, Budapest, in the academic year 1966/67 The places these women occupied in university hierarchy are given in Table 8. . ; Table 8 Women in the hierarchy of the teaching and scientific staff of the Technical University for Building and Transport Engineering, 1966/67 Faculty „Docent" (Associate Professor) University Assistant Lecturer University Assistant Trainee Scientific co-worker Total Building Engineering 8 1 1 2 12 Transport Engineering 1 1 2 Civil Engineering 1* 5 14 2 22 Total 1 13 16 1 5 36 * Docent Dr. Jolán Mátrai-Zemplén has been appointed, from August 1,1966 to July 31, Head of the Department of Experimental Physics. Jolán M. Zemplén was the first female professor of physics in Hungary. She had great merits in research into the history of physics in Hungary and in popularising this discipline. She was born in Budapest in 1911 as daughter of a well-known physicist, Prof. Győző Zemplén, who was elected member of the Hungarian Academy of Science in the same year. He was the one, who laid down the basis of modern research and teaching of physics in Hungary. However, he could not finish his work as he died, at the age of 38 on the Italian front during World War I. One of the uncles of Jolán M. Zemplén, Géza Zemplén, was a famous organic chemist, a professor and Head of Department at Budapest Technical University. He introduced modern scientific organic chemistry in Hungary. Another uncle of Jolán M. Zemplén, Béla Mauritz headed the Department of Mineralogy at Budapest University of Science. Jolán M. Zemplén graduated from Budapest University of Science as physicist and mathematician in 1935, she started her 40-year work at Budapest Technical University as assistant, then became senior lecturer in 1963, professor in 1967 and Head of Department of Experimental Physics in the same year. She also assumed the task of heading the first research group of history of science in the country, took part in the work of the International Union for the