Marie Gernet, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Date of Birth: 01-Oct-1865
Place of Birth: Ettlingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Date of Death: 10-Feb-1924
Profession: mathematician
Zodiac Sign: Libra 
About Marie Gernet
- Marie Gernet (1 October 1865 – 1924) was a German mathematician who in 1895 became the second woman to obtain a doctorate at Heidelberg University.
- The first was Käthe Windscheid, who earned a doctorate for her work on English pastoral poetry in the previous year.
- Gernet was also the first native German woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics, 13 years earlier than Emmy Noether.
- She was the only German among the first eight women to earn a mathematics Ph.D.
- in Germany.
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