Gabrielle Asset Brieger
A young white woman with dark hair in a pixie cut, in an oval frame
Gabrielle Asset, later Brieger, from the 1928 yearbook of Barnard College
Born
Gabrielle Marie Asset

August 21, 1905
Yonkers, New York
DiedDecember 21, 2003 (aged 98)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
OccupationScientist

Gabrielle Asset Brieger (August 21, 1905 – December 21, 2003) was an American scientist. She researched aerosols at the United States Army's Edgewood Arsenal in Maryland, and was decorated twice with Exceptional Civilian Service awards.

Early life and education

Asset was born in Yonkers, New York, the daughter of Henri Louis Asset and Marie Anne Therese Asset. Both of her parents were born in France. Her father was an engineer and businessman.[1] She graduated from Barnard College in 1928. She earned a master's degree in physics and mathematics at Wellesley College in 1931,[2] and another master's degree at Radcliffe College in 1933.[3] She pursued further studies in electronics and fluid dynamics at Cornell University and Johns Hopkins University.[4]

Career

Asset taught physics, chemistry, biology, and mathematics at Dana Hall School, Milwaukee-Downer Seminary and Hood College as a young woman.[5][6][7] She worked as a research engineer for the Brown Instrument Company in Philadelphia in the 1940s.[8]

Asset spent most of her career working at the Army Chemical Research and Development Laboratories at Edgewood Arsenal in Maryland, from 1946 to 1961. At Edgewood, she designed wind tunnels and other devices for the study of aerosols. She was awarded the Army decoration for Exceptional Civilian Service in 1961[9][10] and again in 1964.[4] She held a patent for a measuring apparatus with Fred J. Curran and Walter P. Wills,[11] and for a microburette to produce droplets of uniform size.[12]

Asset was a member of the American Association of University Women,[13] American Physical Society, the American Industrial Hygiene Association, and the Scientific Research Society of America.[4][14]

Publications

Asset's research was published in government reports, and in professional journals including Electronics,[8] Archives of Industrial Health,[15][16] American Industrial Hygiene Association Journal,[17][18][19] and Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology.[20]

  • "A Photoelectric Galvanometer Amplifier" (1945)[8]
  • "Deposition of Windborne Particles on Human Skin" (1954, with Doris Pury)[21]
  • "Nasal penetration of particles of small inertia in experimental animals." (1956, with L. E. Gongwer and Stella Ryan)[15]
  • "Effect of Particle Size and Wind Speed on Nasal Penetration of Wind-Borne Particles. Observations on Experimental Animals" (1957)[16]
  • "Nasal Sampling of Aerosols in Experimental Animals" (1958)[22]
  • "Effects of Inhalation of Aerosols of Three Engine Oils" (1958, with Martin A. Ross and Stella Ryan)[23]
  • "A Solenoid-Operated Microburet for Producing Uniform Droplets"(1959)[17]
  • "Note on the Lateral Displacement of Solid Particles and Gas in Shear Turbulent Flow" (1964, with Dennis Phillips)[20]
  • "Leeward Deposition of Particles on Cylinders from Moving Aerosols" (1967, with Thomas G. Hutchins)[19]
  • "Small-Particle Collection Efficiency of Vertical Cylinders in Flows of Low-Intensity Turbulence" (1970, with David Kimball and Milton Hoff)[18]

Personal life

In 1951, Asset married German-born professor of occupational medicine, Heinrich Brieger.[24] Her husband died in 1972,[25] and she died in 2003, at the age of 98, in Philadelphia.[26][27]

References

  1. ↑ "Henri L. Asset". Brooklyn Heights Press. 1962-04-05. p. 7. Retrieved 2024-01-08 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ↑ Wellesley College (1931). Catalogue. Wellesley College Library. pp. 13, 128, 161.
  3. ↑ "Degrees to 2 Boro Girls". Times Union. 1933-06-22. p. 7. Retrieved 2024-01-08 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. 1 2 3 "'It's the Little Things That Count'... In Top Woman Scientist's Research at CRDL" (PDF). Army Research and Development Newsmagazine: 41. December 1963.
  5. ↑ Dana Hall School (1938). Catalogue, 1938-1939. p. 5 – via Internet Archive.
  6. ↑ "Class Notes". Barnard College Alumnae Monthly: 20. October 1939 – via Internet Archive.
  7. ↑ "Named Hood Instructor". The Evening Sun. 1940-09-27. p. 36. Retrieved 2024-01-08 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. 1 2 3 Asset, Gabrielle (February 1945). "A Photoelectric Galvanometer Amplifier". Electronics. 18: 126–129.
  9. ↑ "Army Honors Nine Civilians". Evening star. 1961-09-12. p. 2. Retrieved 2024-01-08 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ↑ "Nine Army Civilians Honored". The Newport Daily Express. 1961-09-29. p. 3. Retrieved 2024-01-08 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ↑ United States Patent Office (January 30, 1945). Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office. p. 696.
  12. ↑ "Woman Physicist Studies Airborne Particle Behavior". The Aegis. 1963-11-28. pp. B4, B5. Retrieved 2024-01-08 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ↑ "To Aid in Forming State Organization of AAUW". The News. 1942-05-18. p. 2. Retrieved 2024-01-08 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ↑ "Dr. Willis to Head Local Branch of Scientific Research Society". The Aegis. 1965-01-28. p. 20. Retrieved 2024-01-08 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. 1 2 Asset, Gabrielle, L. E. Gongwer, and Stella Ryan. "Nasal penetration of particles of small inertia in experimental animals." Arch. Indust. Health 13, no. 6, Sect. 1 (1956): 597-601.
  16. 1 2 Asset, Gabrielle. "Effect of Particle Size and Wind Speed on Nasal Penetration of Wind-Borne Particles. Observations on Experimental Animals." Arch. Indust. Health 15, no. 2 (1957): 119-23.
  17. 1 2 Asset, Gabrielle. "A Solenoid-Operated Microburet for Producing Uniform Droplets" American Industrial Hygiene Association Journal 20, no. 1 (1959): 56-60.
  18. 1 2 Asset, Gabrielle; Kimball, David; Hoff, Milton (May 1970). "Small-Particle Collection Efficiency of Vertical Cylinders in Flows of Low-Intesity Turbulence". American Industrial Hygiene Association Journal. 31 (3): 331–334. doi:10.1080/0002889708506251. ISSN 0002-8894.
  19. 1 2 Asset, Gabrielle; Hutchins, Thomas G. (July 1967). "Leeward Deposition of Particles on Cylinders from Moving Aerosols". American Industrial Hygiene Association Journal. 28 (4): 348–353. doi:10.1080/00028896709342534. ISSN 0002-8894.
  20. 1 2 Asset, Gabrielle; Philips, Dennis (1964-08-01). "Note on the Lateral Displacement of Solid Particles and Gas in Shear Turbulent Flow". Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology. 3 (4): 480–483. doi:10.1175/1520-0450(1964)003<0480:NOTLDO>2.0.CO;2. ISSN 1520-0450.
  21. ↑ Asset, Gabrielle, and Doris Pury. "Deposition of Wind-Borne Particles on Human Skin." Arch. Indust. Hyg. & Occupational Med. 9, no. 4 (1954): 273-83.
  22. ↑ Asset, Gabrielle. "Nasal Sampling of Aerosols in Experimental Animals." Arch. Indust. Health 18, no. 6 (1958): 460-63.
  23. ↑ "Asset, Gabrielle, Martin A. Ross, and Stella Ryan. "Effects of Inhalation of Aersols of Three Engine Oils." (1958): 0007.
  24. ↑ "Applications for Marriage Licenses Issued in Philadelphia". The Philadelphia Inquirer. 1951-11-14. p. 46. Retrieved 2024-01-08 – via Newspapers.com.
  25. ↑ "Heinrich Brieger, Medical Professor". The New York Times. Retrieved 2024-01-08.
  26. ↑ "Gabrielle Asset Brieger (death notice)". The Philadelphia Inquirer. 2003-12-28. pp. B05. Retrieved 2024-01-08 – via Newspapers.com.
  27. ↑ "Class Notes". Barnard. 93 (2): 36. March 2004 – via Internet Archive.
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