Käte Schiff was born in Austria and worked for her doctorate in V.M. Goldschmidt's laboratory at Göttingen. She came to England as a refugee working for a time with Hodgkin in Oxford. After the Second World War she returned to Germany with her husband Paul Dornberger and subsequently made her career at the Institut für Strukturforschung, Berlin-Adlersdorf, DDR.

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Includes biographical account by Hodgkin.