Lydia Pasternak Slater

[2][3] Lydia Pasternak began to study medicine at the Second Moscow University, but changed to chemistry, physics and botany.

She continued her academic career in Berlin, after most of the Pasternak family had migrated to Germany as a result of the October Revolution, and received a doctoral degree in chemistry in 1926.

Together they studied the influence of chemical substances on the brain and published several articles on their results in the journal Biochemische Zeitschrift.

Pasternak sought exile in Britain, joining Eliot Trevor Oakeshott Slater, a psychiatrist she had met in Munich.

[2][5] Lydia Pasternak Slater continued to live in Park Town, North Oxford, until her death in 1989.