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Ida Freund

1863 - 1914

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Ida Freund (5 April 1863 – 15 May 1914) was the first woman to be a university chemistry lecturer in the United Kingdom. She is known for her influence on science teaching, particularly the teaching of women and girls. She wrote two key chemistry textbooks and invented the idea of baking periodic table cupcakes, as well as inventing a gas measuring tube, which was named after her. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ida Freund is the 533rd most popular chemist (up from 540th in 2019), the 932nd most popular biography from Austria (up from 974th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Austrian Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Ida Freund ranks 533 out of 602. Before her are Eugen Baumann, Oswald Schmiedeberg, Robert Jarvik, Marc Delafontaine, Margaret Oakley Dayhoff, and Nikolai Menshutkin. After her are Friedrich Accum, Aleksandr Arbuzov, Neil Bartlett, Mary L. Good, Sabir Yunusov, and Rainer Ludwig Claisen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1863, Ida Freund ranks 152. Before her are Camille Erlanger, Marguerite Audoux, Edgar Syers, Dmitry Grave, Ekvtime Takaishvili, and Carl H. Eigenmann. After her are Stanisław Zaremba, William Henry Young, Corrado Segre, Outram Bangs, Dimitar Stanchov, and Eduard David. Among people deceased in 1914, Ida Freund ranks 121. Before her are Tor Aulin, John Philip Holland, Edward S. Holden, Daniel De Leon, Robert Hugh Benson, and Karolina Kózka. After her are Christopher Cradock, Margaret E. Knight, Altaf Hussain Hali, Jakub Arbes, Charles Devendeville, and Joshua Chamberlain.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Ida Freund ranks 932 out of 1,424. Before her are Johann Berger (1845), Anton Walbrook (1896), Albert Paris Gütersloh (1887), Fiorenzo Marini (1914), Michael Baur (1969), and Josefine Swoboda (1861). After her are Eduard Krieger (1946), Liese Prokop (1941), Dietmar Schönherr (1926), Béla von Kehrling (1891), Siegfried Purner (1915), and Bibi Besch (1942).

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Among CHEMISTS In Austria

Among chemists born in Austria, Ida Freund ranks 9. Before her are Richard Kuhn (1900), Max Perutz (1914), Martin Karplus (1930), Carl Auer von Welsbach (1858), Franz-Joseph Müller von Reichenstein (1740), and Carl Djerassi (1923).

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