Vera Yevstafievna Popova

Vera Yevstafievna Popova

Wera Jewstafjewna Popova , born Vera Jewstafjewna Bogdanowskaja , ( Russian Вера Евстафьевна Попова , maiden name Russian Вера Евстафьевна Богдановская ; born September 5 ^{. Jul} / 17th September  1867 ^greg. In St. Petersburg , † April 26 ^jul. / 8. May  1896 ^greg. in Izhevsk ) was a Russian chemist and university professor .

Life

Bogdanowskaja's father was the surgeon Evstafi Ivanovich Bogdanovsky . She attended the St. Petersburg Smolny Institute with graduation in 1883. Then she studied in St. Petersburg until 1887 in the university-like higher courses for women in the natural science department. Then she studied chemistry with Carl Graebe and Philippe-Auguste Guye at the University of Geneva , from which she obtained a doctorate in chemistry in 1892 with her dissertation on 1,3-diphenyl-2-propanone .

As early as 1890, Bogdanowskaja taught chemistry at the Institute for Agriculture and Forestry Nowa Alexandria . From 1892 she gave a lecture on stereochemistry in the higher courses for women in St. Petersburg. The ketones remained a focus of her scientific work. She wrote a chemistry textbook, translated chemical articles and, together with her professor, published the works of Alexander Mikhailovich Butlerov . She was also interested in entomology and published a paper on bees in 1889 . She wrote her own short stories and translated Guy de Maupassant's stories .

In the fall of 1895 Bogdanowskaja married the noble major general and new head of the Izhevsk mechanical engineering works Jakow Kosmitsch Popow . She moved to Izhevsk with her husband and set up a chemical laboratory at home. In 1896 she experimented with white phosphorus and hydrogen cyanide in her laboratory . There was an explosion and four hours later she died of her injuries and poisoning.

After Popova's funeral in the Alexander Newsk Cathedral in Izhevsk, she was buried in the Popov family seat of Shabanilov in the Chernigov governorate . Her grave was destroyed after the October Revolution . Her memorial stone is in the Sosnytsya District Museum .

Web links

• Literature by and about Vera Yevstafievna Popova in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Catalog of the Russian National Library : Богдановская, Вера Евстафьевна , Попова, Вера Евстафьевна

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Попова (Вера Евстафьевна) . In: Brockhaus-Efron . XXIVa, 1898, p. 552 ( Wikisource [accessed December 16, 2019]).
2. ^ ^{A b c} Anne C. Hughes: Vera Evstafevna Bogdanovskaia . In: Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: Pioneering Lives from Ancient Times to the Mid-Twentieth Century . Routledge, New York 2014, pp. 153 .
3. ↑ ^{a b} Elder, Eleanor S; et al .: The Deadly Outcome of Chance-Vera Estafevna Bogdanovskaia . In: Journal of Chemical Education . tape 56 , no. 4 , 1979, p. 251-252 , doi : 10.1021 / ed056p251 .
4. ^ Gustavsona, G .: A few words about Vera Estafevna Bogdanovskaia . In: Journal of the Russian Physical Chemical Society . tape 29 , 1897, pp. 147-151 . (Russian)
5. ↑ Obituary . In: Nature . tape 56 , no. 1441 , July 16, 1897, p. 132 , doi : 10.1038 / 056129c0 .
6. ^ Scientific Notes and News . In: Science . tape 6 , no. 133 , 1897, pp. 96 , doi : 10.1126 / science.6.133.94 .
7. ↑ Bogdanovskaya WJ: Реакции уплотнения и восстановления дибензилкетона . In: Журнал Русского физико-химического общества . tape 24 , no. 5 , 1892.
8. ↑ ^{a b} Rayner-Canham, Marelene; Rayner-Canham, Geoffrey: Women in Chemistry: Their Changing Roles from Alchemical Times to the Mid-twentieth Century . Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia 2001, ISBN 978-0-941901-27-7 , pp. 64 .
9. ↑ Bogdanovskaya WJ: Об окислении кетонов в оксикислоты (Сообщение) . In: Журнал Русского физико-химического общества . tape 26 , no. 4 , 1894.
10. ↑ Rulev, Alexander Yu .; Voronkov, Mikhail G .: Women in chemistry: a life devoted to science . In: New Journal of Chemistry . tape 37 , no. 12 , 2013, p. 3826 , doi : 10.1039 / C3NJ00718A .