Education
University of Copenhagen.
University of Copenhagen.
She was a high school teacher for many years, working on her education and research in physics at the same time. She received her Doctor of Philosophy in physics from the University of Copenhagen in 1909, becoming the first Danish woman to earn a doctorate in natural sciences. Her dissertation, Temperaturbegrebets Udvikling gennem Tiderne (The Development of the Temperature Concept through Time), was an in-depth treatment of the history of the concept of temperature.
In 1902, Meyer founded Fysisk Tidsskrift, the Danish journal of physics.
She was its editor until 1913. In 1925, she was awarded the Tagea Brandt Rejselegat.