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Noemie Benczer Koller
Noemie Benczer Koller is a nuclear physicist. She was the first tenured female professor of Rutgers College.
Early life and education.
Koller was born Noemie Benczer in Vienna, Austria on born August 21, 1933. Her father was a Ph.D. chemist and her mother worked as a bookbinder. The family moved frequently in her early childhood due to the turbulence of World War II. Her family moved from Vienna to Paris, and then subsequently moved further south in France several times to escape the German invasion
, serving on many national committees, as well as Chair of the 2,500-member APS Nuclear Physics Division. Koller is a strong supporter of women in science and has contributed a significant amount of research to the physics community internationally.
Personal life.
While in graduate school at Columbia University in 1956, Noemie Benczer married fellow physics student Earl Leonard Koller. When the Noemie took up her position at Rutgers, Earl was hired at the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ. The Kollers had two sons, David, a