Canadian scientist and educator Ursula Franklin remembered as ‘global pioneer’
TORONTO — The late Ursula Franklin is being remembered as a “global pioneer,” a trailblazer in science and academics, a staunch feminist and outspoken peace activist.
The acclaimed Canadian scientist, educator and Holocaust survivor died Friday at the age of 94.
Franklin was born in Munich, Germany, in 1921, and educated in Berlin. During her time as a young science student, she was imprisoned in a Nazi work camp because her mother was Jewish. She spent the rest of the Second World War repairing bombed buildings.
She received her PhD in experimental physics at the Technical University of Berlin in 1948 and the following year emigrated to Canada and became a postdoctoral student at the University of Toronto.