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Lina Solomonovna Stern (Shtern)

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Lina Solomonovna Stern (Shtern) · Science & Medicine

What

Lina Shtern, biochemist and physician, was the first woman professor at the University of Geneva and the first woman named to the Soviet Academy of Sciences.

When

26 August 1878

Biography

Lina Solomonovna Stern (Shtern) is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Lina Shtern, biochemist and physician, was the first woman professor at the University of Geneva and the first woman named to the Soviet Academy of Sciences.

How & why

Lina Shtern, biochemist and physician, was the first woman professor at the University of Geneva and the first woman named to the Soviet Academy of Sciences. That is how the Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women, the scholarly reference published by the Jewish Women's Archive, opens its entry on her, written by Alice Nakhimovsky, and the entry is linked below.

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Source: Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women (Jewish Women's Archive) — Alice Nakhimovsky

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Lina Shtern, biochemist and physician, was the first woman professor at the University of Geneva and the first woman named to the Soviet Academy of Sciences.

1878

Source: Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women (Jewish Women's Archive) — Alice Nakhimovsky