[1] Her parents were Rose (née Ortner) and Ulysses S. Schmidt, a lumber buyer for the New York Central Railroad.
[1] After college, Schraer was a research associate at the Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia.
[4] She was a visiting professor at Harvard Medical School and Cavendish College at the University of Cambridge.
[3]Schraer announced her intent to retire at the end of the 1991–92 academic year, but she died on April 10, 1992.
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