Lydia Rabinowitsch-Kempner

Lydia Rabinowitsch-Kempner (22 August 1871 – 3 August 1935) was a Jewish bacteriologist, suffragette, and physician, known for her research on the pathogenesis of tuberculosis. In 1904, she identified the bacterium tubercle bacilli in raw milk. Her work was crucial to the development of Freund adjuvant. In 1912, she became the first woman to be granted professorship in Berlin. Eventually, Rabinowitsch became the director of the Moabit Hospital.