Dr. Lydia Rabinowitsch-Kempner

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Bacteriologist Lydia Rabinowitsch-Kempner became a specialist on tuberculosis, earning a reputation in Berlin after she discovered the dangers in milk production at one factory in the city. She was honored by Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1912. Although Rabinowitsch-Kempner was both a world-famous scientist and a professor, she often encountered anti-Semitism and was never able to attain an academic position at the University of Berlin. However, as a member of Berlin society and a highly respected woman scientist, she was also editor of the Journal of Tuberculosis and the president of the Association to Support Women Students with Interest-Free Loans. With the rise of Nazism, Rabinowitsch-Kempner was deprived of all her positions in 1933 and died due to illness 1935.