Vera Yevstafievna Popova, Russian chemist (died 1896)

Vera Yevstafievna Popova, née Vera Bogdanovskaya was a Russian chemist. She was one of the first female chemists in Russia, and the first Russian female author of a chemistry textbook. She "probably became the first woman to die in the cause of chemistry" as a result of an explosion in her laboratory.