Estera Tenenbaum
Estera Tenenbaum (also Esther Tenenbaum , born January 27, 1904 in Warsaw, † 1963 in Jerusalem) was a Polish biologist of the Jewish faith. After her forced departure from Germany in 1934, she became an international cell and virus researcher.
Career
Tenenbaum was born in Warsaw in 1904. Her family later moved to Łódź , where she attended high school. From 1921 to 1923 she studied at the University of Krakow. From 1923 to 1929 Tenenbaum studied biology and zoology at the Humboldt University in Berlin . In 1924 her parents and her younger brother emigrated from Poland to Palestine.
In 1929 she received a research position at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Brain Research in Berlin-Buch . She worked there with the Russian couple Timofejew-Ressovsky , among others . From 1933, the National Socialists who had come to political power in Germany also put pressure on foreigners, Jews and women in this research institute. Tenenbaum and the institute director Oskar Vogt were ultimately unable to counter this triple pressure. Tenenbaum left Germany in 1934 and emigrated via Poland to Tel Aviv, where her parents and younger brother lived.
Via various research centers in Israel and from 1951 in Great Britain, she came to the California Institute of Technology under Renato Dulbecco in 1955 , where she carried out research on in vitro cultures of brain tissue.
Esther Tenenbaum died of a heart attack in Jerusalem in 1963.
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- Annette B. Vogt (Jewish Woman's Archive, Encyclopedia): Estera Tenenbaum. Retrieved December 13, 2018 .
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tenenbaum, Estera |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tenenbaum, Esther |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish biologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 27, 1904 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Warsaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1963 |
| Place of death | Jerusalem |