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Physics Institute and in 1924, she was promoted to the position of Assistentin (assistant) .86 After her habilitation in experimental physics in 1932, Seidl became Privatdozentin (private lecturer) at the University of Vienna, teaching a course every semester from 1933 onwards.

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The zoologist Leonore Brecher, one of his students, completed her habilitation in 1923 and during the last two years of her study, she was appointed as Przibram's private Assistentin. 52 In 1925, the opportunity arose to appoint an Assistent as a state employ at the institute, but Brecher had already received a fellowship from the Deutsches Notgemeinschaft to spend research time at the Rhoda Erdmann Institute in Berlin.

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Her dissertation focused on the factors necessary to obtain alpha ray saturation. 89 Her practicum was done at the Radium Institute and thus her first article was published directly from her dissertation and appeared in the Mitteilungen in 1919.90 Just a year later, in December 1920, Fonovits was formally accepted as ausserordentlicher Assistentin in the institute with a monthly salary of 1,000 Kronen. 91

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The one who most benefited from it was Charlotte Bühler, who was hired by the city as Ordentlichen Assistentin at the institute and de facto as a university assistant.

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63In these odd circumstances, Hilda Fonovits-Smereker, Assistentin of the Radium Institute from 1919 to 1922, took over Urbach's position.

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61In the meantime, Fonovits married and as Hilda Fonovits-Smereker held a joint appointment as Assistentin to the Second Physics Institute and the Radium Institute during 1920 – 21.92 When her son was born in 1922, she found it difficult to combine motherhood with a scientific career.

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