Lydia Rabinowitsch-Kempner was an American physician. Lydia Rabinowitsch-Kempner was born at Kovno, Russian Empire, currently Kaunas, Lithuania. She was educated at the girls' gymnasium of her native city, and privately in Latin and Greek, subsequently studying natural sciences at the universities of Zurich and Bern. After graduation she went to Berlin, where Professor Koch permitted her to pursue her bacteriological studies at the Institute for Infectious Diseases.

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  • Lydia Rabinowitsch-Kempner was an American physician. Lydia Rabinowitsch-Kempner was born at Kovno, Russian Empire, currently Kaunas, Lithuania. She was educated at the girls' gymnasium of her native city, and privately in Latin and Greek, subsequently studying natural sciences at the universities of Zurich and Bern. After graduation she went to Berlin, where Professor Koch permitted her to pursue her bacteriological studies at the Institute for Infectious Diseases. In 1895 she went to Philadelphia, where she was appointed lecturer and, subsequently, professor at the Medical School for Women. There she founded a bacteriological institute, though still continuing her studies every summer under Professor Koch. In 1896 she delivered before the International Congress of Women at Berlin a lecture on the study of medicine by women in various countries. In 1898 she married Dr. Walter Kempner of Berlin. At the congress of scientists held at Breslau in 1904 she presided over the section for hygiene and bacteriology.
  • Lydia Rabinowitsch-Kempner war eine Mikrobiologin. Ihr wurde als zweiter Frau in Preußen und als erste in Berlin der Professorentitel verliehen. Sie gab außerdem als erste Frau mit der Zeitschrift für Tuberkulose eine Fachzeitschrift heraus und wies die Übertragung der Tuberkelbazillen durch infizierte Kuhmilch nach. Im Jahr 1920 übernahm Rabinowitsch-Kempner das Bakteriologische Institut am Städtischen Krankenhaus Moabit, wurde jedoch auf Grund ihrer jüdischen Herkunft 1934 zwangspensioniert.
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  • Lydia Rabinowitsch-Kempner was an American physician. Lydia Rabinowitsch-Kempner was born at Kovno, Russian Empire, currently Kaunas, Lithuania. She was educated at the girls' gymnasium of her native city, and privately in Latin and Greek, subsequently studying natural sciences at the universities of Zurich and Bern. After graduation she went to Berlin, where Professor Koch permitted her to pursue her bacteriological studies at the Institute for Infectious Diseases.
  • Lydia Rabinowitsch-Kempner war eine Mikrobiologin. Ihr wurde als zweiter Frau in Preußen und als erste in Berlin der Professorentitel verliehen. Sie gab außerdem als erste Frau mit der Zeitschrift für Tuberkulose eine Fachzeitschrift heraus und wies die Übertragung der Tuberkelbazillen durch infizierte Kuhmilch nach.
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  • Lydia Rabinowitsch-Kempner
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