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Lina Stern

1878 - 1968

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Lina Solomonovna Stern or Shtern (Russian: Лина Соломоновна Штерн; 26 August 1878 – 7 March 1968) was a Soviet biochemist, physiologist and humanist whose medical discoveries saved thousands of lives at the fronts of World War II. She is best known for her pioneering work on the blood–brain barrier, which she described as hemato-encephalic barrier in 1921. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Lina Stern is the 422nd most popular chemist (down from 413th in 2019), the 90th most popular biography from Latvia (down from 87th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Latvian Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Lina Stern ranks 422 out of 602. Before her are George Church, Otto Wichterle, Louis-Sébastien Lenormand, Walther Kossel, Carl Graebe, and Alexandre-Émile Béguyer de Chancourtois. After her are Coenraad Johannes van Houten, Hugo Schiff, Claudine Picardet, Frank Wigglesworth Clarke, Maud Menten, and Georges Urbain.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, Lina Stern ranks 131. Before her are Maria Ilyinichna Ulyanova, Clara Westhoff, Emmy Destinn, Max Dehn, Margaret Abbott, and Yemelyan Yaroslavsky. After her are Luís of Orléans-Braganza, Anton Heida, Selim Palmgren, Karl Buresch, Anna Coleman Ladd, and Julie Manet. Among people deceased in 1968, Lina Stern ranks 111. Before her are Sigfried Giedion, Herbert Read, Chana Orloff, Maurice Larrouy, Gunnar Ekelöf, and Armando Castellazzi. After her are Ludowika Jakobsson, Jeanne Demessieux, Robert Z. Leonard, Anthony Asquith, Ellen Gleditsch, and Mae Marsh.

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In Latvia

Among people born in Latvia, Lina Stern ranks 90 out of 323. Before her are Georg August Schweinfurth (1836), Jānis Balodis (1881), Nikolay Lossky (1870), Yevgeny Miller (1867), Yury Tynyanov (1894), and Kristjan Jaak Peterson (1801). After her are Eduard Totleben (1818), Ernst Rudolf von Trautvetter (1809), Karl Wilhelm von Kupffer (1829), Vilhelms Purvītis (1872), Arvīds Jansons (1914), and Jānis Rudzutaks (1887).

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Among CHEMISTS In Latvia

Among chemists born in Latvia, Lina Stern ranks 3. Before her are Wilhelm Ostwald (1853), and Paul Walden (1863). After her are Oswald Schmiedeberg (1838).

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