Lydia Rabinowitsch-Kempner

[1] In 1895, she went to Philadelphia, where she was appointed lecturer, and eventually, a professor at the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania.

Subsequently, Dr. Rabinowitsch studied African trypanosomiasis in East Africa alongside Robert Koch.

[1] In 1904, she uncovered in raw milk the bacterium, tubercle bacilli, which Robert Koch had previously attempted but failed in the past.

[2] Once she returned to Berlin, Rabinowitsch received a position as a research assistant at the Pathology Institute at the Charité Hospital focusing on tuberculosis.

[1] In 1912, Kaiser Wilhelm honoured her, but this led to an anti-semitic backlash in the press and she was denied employment.

[9] She worked with Pasteur Institute authorities to solve the BCG vaccine crisis after accidental contamination in Lubock led to patients being infected with tuberculosis.