Clara Immerwahr
Clara Immerwahr · Science & Medicine
First woman to earn a doctorate in chemistry at the University of Breslau; opposed the use of poison gas in war
21 June 1870, Breslau, Prussia (now Wrocław, Poland) — 2 May 1915, Dahlem, Berlin, Germany
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Clara Immerwahr is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — First woman to earn a doctorate in chemistry at the University of Breslau; opposed the use of poison gas in war
Clara Immerwahr was the youngest daughter of the Jewish chemist Philipp Immerwahr. In 1900 she became the first woman to take a doctorate in chemistry at the University of Breslau, summa cum laude, at a time when German universities barely admitted women. She married Fritz Haber, opposed his work on chemical warfare, and took her own life in 1915, days after the first large-scale chlorine attack at Ypres; German chemists' associations now award a prize in her name.
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First woman to earn a doctorate in chemistry at the University of Breslau; opposed the use of poison gas in war
Source: Wikipedia — Clara Immerwahr
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