Clara Immerwahr, German chemist (born 1870)

Clara Immerwahr

German chemist (1870–1915)

Clara Helene Immerwahr was a German chemist. She was the first German woman to be awarded a doctorate in chemistry from the University of Breslau, and is credited with being a pacifist as well as a "heroine of the women's rights movement". From 1901 until her death from suicide…