Tomas Kapler wrote in a post from the #WomenInScience series that Adéla Kochanovská, born Němejcová, discovered a hidden flaw in the armored casings of grenades using X-rays. According to him, in the storage facility, 60 out of 100 pieces ended up as scrap due to cracking; Kochanovská changed the hardening process and reduced the defect rate to a few percent. She became the first woman to obtain the title of professor at the Czech Technical University after the age of fifty. Kapler stated that Kochanovská was born on March 8, 1907, in Silesian Ostrava, where Czech, Polish, and German were commonly mixed. Her father, František Němejc, was a mining engineer, and her mother, Eleonora, née Maurerová, spoke several languages, was a photographer, and played the piano. Her mother wished for her daughter to pursue a musical career, while her uncle, academic painter Augustin Němejc, guided her towards painting. #ŽenyVeVědě #ČVUT #Inovace (translated)
