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IRENE K. FISCHER
IRENE K. FISCHER
Pages 78-85
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Among the notable achievements that she participated in or was wholly responsible for were the revision of the International Ellipsoid in 1956, the refining of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) reference ellipsoid for satellite tracking, the transfer of astrogeodetic deflections of the vertical into geoid contours, the construction of the U.S.
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Her teachers Moritz Schlick and Hans Hahn were among the luminaries of the Vienna Circle; and her fellow students included physicist Victor Weiskopf, sociologist Paul Lazarsfeld, and social psychologist Marie Jahoda. Her father, Rabbi Armand/Aaron Kaminka, was head of the Maimonides Institute and regularly led high holiday services at the famed Vienna Musikverein.
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She taught mathematics at Brown and Nichols Preparatory School in Cambridge and then at Sidwell Friends in Washington, D.C. In 1952 Irene joined the Army Map Service as a mathematician in the Research and Analysis Branch of the Geodetic Division.
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General Assembly in 1957, she and her husband became well-known participants at international geodetic gatherings. Almost immediately she joined, and eventually headed, several IAG special study groups, and at the 1963 Berkeley assembly she was elected a section secretary.
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Fischer loved traveling with her husband, always using meetings as an occasion for a family geographical exploration across the United States and to all five continents. In 1992 she took her family to Spain with the Washington Hebrew Congregation on the 50th anniversary of the expulsion of the Jews, visiting Toledo and other Jewish sites and making sure to be in Granada on the day of the commemorative proclamation.
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84 MEMORIAL TRIBUTES friends, she endowed a Biblical archeology lecture series in her husband's memory at the Rockville Jewish Community Center. In Israel, where many family members live, she and my father had endowed fellowships to a technical college, as well as being supporters of Haddassah (a life member of the Bialik chapter)
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