Lydia Rabinowitsch-Kempner

Lydia Rabinowitsch-Kempner

Lydia Rabinowitsch-Kempner (22 August 1871 – 3 August 1935) was a Jewish bacteriologist, suffragette, and physician, known for her research on the pathogenesis of tuberculosis.[1] In 1904, she identified the bacterium tubercle bacilli in raw milk.[2] Her work was crucial to the development of Freund adjuvant. In 1912, she became the first woman to be granted professorship in Berlin[3][4][2] Eventually, Rabinowitsch became the director of the Moabit Hospital.[2]

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  3. ^ Mary R. S. Creese; Thomas M. Creese (2004). Ladies in the Laboratory 2. Scarecrow Press. pp. 129–138. ISBN 978-0-8108-4979-2.
  4. ^ Kaufmann, Stefan H. E. (2022). "Lydia Rabinowitsch-Kempner, a TB researcher and role model". Nature Reviews Immunology. 22 (8): 464. doi:10.1038/s41577-022-00754-9. ISSN 1474-1741. PMID 35773352. S2CID 250175928.

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