Martha Lux-Steiner
Martha Christina Lux-Steiner, (née Steiner; December 18, 1950, Bern), is a Swiss physicist. From 1995 to 2016 she was the first female tenured professor in the department of physics at the FU Berlin. Lux-Steiner holds a Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class. Life und Works Early Years Martha Steiner grew up in Eastern Switzerland from 1952. She attended the gymnasium at the cantonal school St. Gallen. From 1970 to 1975 she studied physics and mathematics at the ETH Zürich and completed her foundational studies at the Institute for Biomedical Technology, with a diploma on the subject of computed tomography. Subsequently, she transferred to the Institut for Toxicology at the ETH Zürich, where she worked on her doctoral thesis on the topic of atomic emission spectroscopy (ICP-OES) titled "Entwicklung und Anwendung des induktiv gekoppelten Hochfrequenzplasmas als emissionsspektroskopische Messmethode für die Spurenelementanalytik in organischem Material". She performed the experiments for her thesis at the former Philips Natuurkundig Laboratorium (NatLab) in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. For this work she was awarded a doctorate from the ETH Zürich in 1981. In addition to her scientific work, from 1987 to 1955 she was active as a certified ski teacher at the ski school St. Gallen and