Clara Immerwahr

Clara Immerwahr was a German chemist. She was the first woman to be awarded a doctorate in chemistry in Germany. She was also both a pacifist and a womens rights activist. From 1901 until her suicide in 1915, she was married to the Nobel Prizewinning chemist Fritz Haber.

Immerwahr was born on the Polkendorff Farm near Breslau . She was the youngest daughter of Jewish parents, chemist Philipp Immerwahr and his wife Anna . She grew up on the farm with her three older siblings, Elli, Rose and Paul. In 1890, her mother died of cancer while Elli and her husband Siegfried stayed at the farm, Clara moved with her father to Breslau.

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