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Vera Bogdanovskaia

Russian chemist

Died when: 28 years 234 days (343 months)
Star Sign: Virgo

 

Vera Bogdanovskaia

Vera Yevstafievna Popova, née Vera Bogdanovskaya (Вера Евстафьевна Попова; 17 September 1867 – 8 May 1896) 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.


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