Fanny Moser, also known as Fanny Hoppe-Moser, (27 May 1872 – 24 February 1953) was a Swiss-German

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. Her father Johan-Heinrich Moser was an engineer and built the Moser dam in

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. In 1896 Fanny Moser became the first female student to register at the

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, where she studied medicine. She then began studying zoology in Munich and received her doctorate in 1902, specialising in the developmental history of the

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lung. In 1903 she married the composer Jaroslav Hoppe. They moved to

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and Moser began her international research, which included identifying nine new species, most notably the cold-water southern physonect '' Pyrostephos vanhoeffeni'' that was collected from the South Pole expedition for the Museum of Natural History in Berlin. The

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commissioned her to work on his zoological deep sea collection. She became involved with

parapsychology Parapsychology is the study of alleged psychic phenomena (extrasensory perception, telepathy, teleportation, precognition, clairvoyance, psychokinesis (also called telekinesis), and psychometry (paranormal), psychometry) and other paranormal cla ...

in 1914, releasing a work on the topic in 1935.

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