Nadezhda Ziber-Shumova

Nadezhda Olimpievna Ziber-Shumova (d. 1914), was a Russian chemist. She was co-founder of the Imperial Institute of Experimental Medicine in St. Petersburg, where she was head of the department of chemistry and biochemistry.

She was informally educated in chemistry in Switzerland, where she moved with her spouse, the Marxist Nikolai Ziber in 1872. From 1877, she was active as a scientist, and are regarded to have published more scientific chemistry works then any other woman before 1900.

References

• Creese, Mary R. S. (1998). "Early women chemists in Russia: Anna Volkova, Iulia Lermontova, and Nadezhda Ziber-Shumova" (PDF). Bull. Hist. Chem. 21: 19–24. Retrieved 7 May 2014.