Rachel (Raya) Takserman-Krozer

In 1972, she continued her research at the RWTH Aachen University, University of Karlsruhe and finally at the University of Stuttgart, working together with Eckehart Kröner.She deceased in Trier, Germany, after three years of fight against lung cancer, on September 28, 1987. According to her last wish, she had been entombed in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

In August 1968 she obtained a position as a professor at the Department of Mechanics at the Israel Institute of Technology (Technion) headed, at that time, by Marcus Reiner, the founder of Rheology, where she worked on the subjects of Microrheology and Nonlinear Rheology.

She received the Polish Chemical Society Scientific Award in 1963, and was listed in Who's who in Israel 1972 and the International Register of Profiles of the International Biographical Centre

In 1963, Takserman-Krozer received the Polish Chemical Society Scientific Award. She is listed in the Who's Who in Israel 1972 and in International Register of Profiles of the International Biographical Centre.

Rachel (Raya) Takserman-Krozer ['Takserman-Krozer] (* 31. December 1921 in Haisyn, Russian: 'Gaysin', Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine; † 28. September 1987 in Trier, Germany) was a theoretical physicist and professor of rheology. Takserman-Krozer worked on diverse aspects of theoretical physics ranging from theory of relativity to studies of polymers and their flow. Her scientific work includes contributions to behaviour of polymers and polymers solutions in velocity fields, theory of spinnability, problems of phenomenological rheology, and molecular-statistical theory of polymer networks. Takserman-Krozer worked across several countries including Russia, Poland, Israel, and Germany.

Rachel (Raya) Takserman-Krozer was born 31. December 1921 in the village of Haisyn, (Russian: Gaysin'), Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine into a Jewish family. After moving to Odessa, Ukraine, Takserman-Krozer finished her school education and was admitted to the Faculty of Physics at the University of Odessa. During the Second World War she volunteered as a nurse and continued her study of physics at the university of Tashkent Russian: Tashkent, Uzbekistan, where she obtained an MSc degree in Theoretical Physics in 1945. She married Szymon (Simon) Krozer in 1946, who studied experimental physics at the university of Tashkent and later became professor of experimental polymer physics. In 1948 she started her doctoral studies on theory of relativity with V. A. Fock at the Institute of Theoretical Physics in Leningrad University now St. Petersburg State University. During this time she lectured at the Petrozavodsk State University. During this time she gave birth to three sons: Anatol Krozer in 1949, who became a surface science physicist focusing on development of bio- and chemical sensors at ACREO, Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE), Gothenburg, Sweden, Georgij (Yoram) Krozer in 1953, who studied biology and economics and works as an associated professor on innovations for sustainable development at the University of Twente, The Netherlands, and Viktor Krozer in 1958, who studied electrical engineering and is now professor of Terahertz Photonics and Electronics at faculty of physics at the Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. In 1959 she resumed her PhD studies at the Laboratory of Polymer Physics of the Industrial Chemistry Institute, headed by Andrzej Ziabicki. She completed her PhD (Warsaw, 1962) and habilitation (Lódz, 1966), both in polymer physics. In 1967 and 1968 she worked in the Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland on hydrodynamics and rheology of polymer solutions and suspensions, "spinnability of liquids", extensional flows and problems related to the theory of polymer processing.