Vera Yevstafievna Popova

Vera Yevstafievna Popova, Vera Bogdanovskaya (; 17 September 1867 – 8 May 1896) was a Russian chemist. She was one of the first female chemists in Russia, and the first Russian female author of a chemistry textbook. She "probably became the first woman to die in the cause of chemistry" as a result of an explosion in her laboratory. Provided by Wikipedia