Doris Schachner

Schachner studied mineralogy at the universities in Heidelberg, Freiburg i. Br., and Innsbruck.[1] She completed her doctorate at the Heidelberg University in 1928 and she completed her habilitation at the TH Aachen in 1933.[1] From 1933 to 1940, she was a lecturer at the TH Aachen.[1] At the end of the second world war (from 1941 to 1945), she worked at the Brno University of Technology.[7] In 1946, she returned to Aachen.[7] In 1948, she became an extraordinary professor at the TH Aachen.[1] From 1949 to 1972, she was an ordinary professor at the TH Aachen.[1] Based on her initiative, the Institute of Crystallography at the TH Aachen was founded in 1963.[2][8] In 1984, she became a Honorary Senator at the TH Aachen.[1] Her daughter Melitta Schachner Camartin was a professor for neurobiology at the University of Hamburg.[7]

Schachner was a pioneer in ore microscopy.[9]

She was a Honorary Senator of the RWTH Aachen University.[2][3] Two minerals are named after her: Schachnerite and Para-Schachnerite.[9][10] A street in Aachen is named after her.

• Korn, Doris (1928). Tektonische und gefügeanalytische Untersuchungen im Grundgebirge des Böllsteiner Odenwaldes. Heidelberg: Schweizerbart.
• Schachner-Korn, Doris (1948-07-01). "Ein metamorphes Erzgefüge". Heidelberger Beiträge zur Mineralogie und Petrographie (in German). 1 (4): 407–426. doi:10.1007/BF01104123. ISSN 1432-0967.
• Schachner-Korn,Doris (1954-03-01). "Ein Wachstums- und ein Rekristallisationsgefüge von Bleiglanz aus einer rheinischen Lagerstätte". Tschermaks Mineralogische und Petrographische Mitteilungen (in German). 4 (1–4): 111–116. doi:10.1007/BF01140381. ISSN 1438-1168.