Ising studied economics at the
Friedrich-Wilhelm University Berlin and received her doctorate in 1926 with a thesis on "
The Problem of Unemployment in England after 1920". On December 23, 1930, she married physicist
Ernst Ising; they lived in
Caputh, Brandenburg, next to the famous summer residence of the
Einstein family. In 1938, the Jewish boarding school in Caputh, where Johanna and Ernst Ising worked as teachers, was destroyed by
National Socialists; in 1939, the Isings emigrated to
Luxembourg. After the
German occupation of Luxembourg, Ernst Ising was forced to perform labor in the army. In 1939 their son Tom was born in Luxembourg. In 1947 they emigrated to the United States and settled in
Peoria, Illinois in 1949, where the Isings taught at
Bradley University. Jane Ising passed away in the early morning hours of her 110th birthday. == References ==