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Annette B. Vogt

Annette B. Vogt is a research scholar at the Max Planck Institute for History of Science in Berlin. She holds a Ph.D. in history of mathematics. Her research interests focus inter alia on women scientists in Europe from a comparative perspective.

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Margarete Zuelzer

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Marguerite Wolff

London-born Marguerite Wolff was a member of Berlin’s intelligentsia in the early 20th century. Between 1925 and 1933 she served as unofficial co-director and later as a research scholar at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Foreign Public Law and International Law.

Estera Tenenbaum

Dismissed from the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in 1934 for being a Jew, a woman, and a foreigner, Estera Tenenbaum went on to become a distinguished cell and virus scientist. Over the course of her career she held research and teaching positions at Hebrew University and participated in groundbreaking research at the California Institute of Technology.

Lydia Rabinowitsch-Kempner

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Lydia Pasternak

Born in Moscow into a family of highly successful artists, Lydia Pasternak made a name for herself in both scientific and literary realms. She worked as an assistant to American neurochemist Irvine H. Page in Munich and later became the preeminent translator of her brother Boris’s poetry while living in Great Britain.

Berta Ottenstein

A pioneer in skin biochemistry and dermatology, Berta Ottenstein became the first woman lecturer in the Medical Faculty at the University of Freiburg in 1931. Two years later she was forced to flee Germany and begin her scientific career anew. After occupying research positions at the universities of Budapest and Istanbul, she received a research fellowship at Harvard University in 1945.

Elsa Neumann

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Hilde Levi

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Gertrud Kornfeld

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Jewish Women's Archive. "Annette B. Vogt." (Viewed on March 19, 2024) <http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/author/vogt-annette>.