William S. Heckscher
In 1932–1933, Heckscher lived in New York where he worked as Panofsky's assistant. During this time, he enrolled in the Graduate Department of Art History at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University to study American art history. Heckscher returned to Germany to continue his studies in 1934. He and his mother were detained by the Gestapo and interrogated for ten days after being accused of having pacifist connections.
Heather Lewandowski
Lewandowski grew up in Laurium, Michigan. She studied physics at Michigan Technological University and graduated Summa Cum Laude in 1997. Whilst at Michigan Technological University, Lewandowski was a member of the Husky Pep Band. She joined the University of Colorado Boulder for her graduate studies, working with Eric Allin Cornell on Bose gases. During her PhD she observed Bose–Einstein condensate gases, where she could see atoms in different spin states. She described a simplified system to create Bose–Einstein condensate in Rb. Her system included a compressed Ioffe-Pritchard trap and large, powerful laser beams. The trap includes powerful permanent magnets and low power electromagnetic coils. She completed her PhD thesis "Coherences and correlations in an ultracold Bose gas" in 2002. She was a finalist for the American Physical Society Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Research in AMO Physics Award.