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Rahel Liebeschütz-Plaut

1894 – 1993

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Dr Rahel Plaut (1894-1993) was a medical doctor and researcher in physiology who became the first female academic to be appointed at Hamburg University School of Medicine. Between 1919 and 1924 she co-authored 25 scientific papers on subjects including metabolism, muscle physiology and infectious disease. She married the historian Hans Liebeschuetz in Hamburg in 1924. They emigrated to England in 1938 to escape Nazi persecution.

Biographical & Professional Details

Date of birth
June 21, 1894
Date of death
December 22, 1993
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