Sophia Getzowa, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Sophia Getzowa

Belarusian-Israeli scientist

Date of Birth: 23-Jan-1872

Place of Birth: Vilnius, Vilnius County, Lithuania

Date of Death: 12-Jul-1946

Profession: scientist, pathologist

Nationality: Israel

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Sophia Getzowa

  • Sophia Getzowa (Hebrew: ????? ??????, 10 January 1872 (O.S.)/23 January 1872 (N.
  • S.) - 11(12) July 1946) was a Belarusian-Israeli pathologist and scientist.
  • She grew up in a Jewish shtetl in Belarus and during her medical studies at the University of Bern, she became engaged to Chaim Weizmann, who would become the first president of Israel.
  • Together they worked in the Zionist movement.
  • After a four year romance, Weizmann broke off their engagement and Getzowa returned to her medical studies, graduating in 1904.
  • She carried out widely cited research on the thyroid, identifying solid cell nests (SCN) in 1907. Because of her status as a Jew, a woman, and a foreigner, Getzowa's employment status was unstable.
  • She worked through the 1920s in various locations in Switzerland and also briefly in Paris.
  • In 1925, after a recommendation from Albert Einstein, she was hired to work as a pathologist in the yet to be created Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she would become the first female professor in 1927.
  • She collaborated with a wide range of European scientists over the remainder of her career, before her retirement in 1940.

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