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Vera Yevstafievna Popova

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Yevstafievna and the family name is Popova.
Vera Popova
Born
(née Bogdanovskaya)

(1867-09-17)17 September 1867[1]
Saint Petersburg
Died8 May 1896(1896-05-08) (aged 28)[1] (Gregorian calendar); 26 April (Julian Calendar).[2]
Izhefskii Zavod
Cause of deathExplosion
Known forEarly Russian chemist
SpouseGeneral Jacob Kozmich Popov
Parent(s)Yevstafy Ivanovich Bogdanovsky and Maria Alexeyevna Bogdanovskaya

Vera Yevstafievna Popova, née Vera Bogdanovskaya (Russian: Вера Евстафьевна Попова; 17 September 1867 – 8 May 1896) was a Russian chemist. She was one of the first female chemists in Russia,[3] and the first Russian female author of a chemistry textbook.[4] She "probably became the first woman to die in the cause of chemistry" as a result of an explosion in her laboratory.[5]

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  3. ^ Ledkovskaia-Astman, Marina; Rosenthal, Charlotte; Zirin, Mary Fleming (1994). Dictionary of Russian Women Writers. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-313-26265-4.
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