Vera Popova

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Vera Jevstafjevna Popova (née Bogdanovskaia, 1868-1897), was a Russian Empire chemist. She was one of the first chemists of her sex in Russia.^[1]

She earned a doctorate in chemistry from the University of Geneva in the early 1890s before returning to Russia in 1892 to work at the St. Petersburg Women's College, where she taught chemistry. She married her husband, General Popov, director of a military steel plant, under the condition that he built her a laboratory where she could continue her research. She died on May 8, 1897, in an explosion resulting from her attempts to synthesize hydrogen cyanide, an unstable chemical compound which was not successfully synthezied until 1961.^[2]

References

↑ Ledkovskaia-Astman, Marina; Rosenthal, Charlotte; Zirin, Mary Fleming (1994). Dictionary of Russian Women Writers. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-313-26265-4.
↑ Rayner-Canham, Marelene; Rayner-Canham, Geoffrey (2001). Women in Chemistry: Their Changing Roles from Alchemical Times to the Mid-twentieth Century. Philadelphia: Chemical Heritage Foundation. ISBN 978-0-941901-27-7.

This article incorporates information from the equivalent article on the Russian Wikipedia.

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Name	Popova, Vera
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Short description	Russian chemist
Date of birth	1867
Place of birth
Date of death	1896
Place of death

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