Fanny Moser Scientist - Place of Birth, Date of Birth, Age, Wiki, Facts, Net Worth, Birthday, Biography and Family

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May 27, 1872 Badenweiler, Baden Württemberg, Germany Died on 24 Feb 1953 (aged 80)

Swiss zoologist

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About Fanny Moser Scientist

  • Fanny Moser, also known as Fanny Hoppe-Moser, (27 May 1872 - 24 February 1953) was a Swiss-German zoologist. Her father Johan-Heinrich Moser was an engineer and built the Moser dam in Schaffhausen.
  • In 1896 Fanny Moser became the first female student to register at the University of Freiburg, where she studied medicine.
  • She then began studying zoology in Munich and received her doctorate in 1902, specialising in the developmental history of the vertebrate lung.
  • In 1903 she married the composer Jaroslav Hoppe.
  • They moved to Berlin and Moser began her international research, which included identifying nine new species, most notably the cold-water southern physonect Pyrostephos vanhoeffeni that was collected from the South Pole expedition for the Museum of Natural History in Berlin.
  • The prince of Monaco commissioned her to work on his zoological deep sea collection.She became involved with parapsychology in 1914, releasing a work on the topic in 1935.

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