Vera Yevstafievna Popova
Vera Yevstafievna Popova was born on September 17, 1867. See ranking, bio blurb, and everyone else born that day.
About Vera Yevstafievna Popova
Vera Yevstafievna Popova (Russian: Вера Евстафьевна Попова) (née Bogdanovskaya; 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.