CHEMIST

Vera Yevstafievna Popova

1867 - 1896

Photo of Vera Yevstafievna Popova

Icon of person Vera Yevstafievna Popova

Vera Yevstafievna Popova, née Vera Bogdanovskaya (Russian: 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Vera Yevstafievna Popova is the 377th most popular chemist (up from 425th in 2019), the 879th most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,309th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Russian Chemist.

Memorability Metrics

Loading...

Page views of Vera Yevstafievna Popova by language

Loading...

Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Vera Yevstafievna Popova ranks 377 out of 602. Before her are Morris Travers, Friedrich Stromeyer, Carl Djerassi, Jeremias Benjamin Richter, Andrés Manuel del Río, and Albert Ghiorso. After her are Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau, Jacques Bergier, Hermann von Fehling, Arthur Aikin, Franz Joseph Emil Fischer, and Nikolay Zelinsky.

Most Popular Chemists in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1867, Vera Yevstafievna Popova ranks 78. Before her are Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., Sister Nivedita, Emil Krebs, Konstantin Balmont, Hiranuma Kiichirō, and Nilo Peçanha. After her are Holger Pedersen, Dagny Juel, Gutzon Borglum, Léon Delacroix, Dimitrios Gounaris, and Ali Kemal. Among people deceased in 1896, Vera Yevstafievna Popova ranks 42. Before her are Karl Verner, Louis Gerhard De Geer, Philipp Ludwig von Seidel, Kurmangazy Sagyrbaev, Antônio Carlos Gomes, and Robert Nobel. After her are Charles Floquet, Luis Ricardo Falero, Jules Simon, Marcelo H. del Pilar, Aleksey Lobanov-Rostovsky, and Stamata Revithi.

Others Born in 1867

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 1896

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vera Yevstafievna Popova ranks 879 out of 3,761. Before her are Nikolay Kostomarov (1817), Mikhail Ulyanov (1927), Mikhail Katukov (1900), Modest Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1850), Vladimir Atlasov (1661), and Vasily Livanov (1935). After her are Fyodor Sologub (1863), Marfa Sobakina (1552), Nina Bari (1901), Alfred Clebsch (1833), Marat Safin (1980), and Viktor Tikhonov (1930).

Others born in Russia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among CHEMISTS In Russia

Among chemists born in Russia, Vera Yevstafievna Popova ranks 13. Before her are Fritz Albert Lipmann (1899), Nikolay Semyonov (1896), Vladimir Markovnikov (1838), Alexander Mikhaylovich Zaytsev (1841), Alexander Butlerov (1828), and Friedrich Konrad Beilstein (1838). After her are Julia Lermontova (1847), Constantin Fahlberg (1850), Nikolay Beketov (1827), Alexander Nesmeyanov (1899), Gustav Heinrich Johann Apollon Tammann (1861), and Alexey Favorsky (1860).

Russian born Chemists

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous