10 Facts About Stefanie Horovitz

Stefanie Horovitz was a Polish-Jewish chemist known for experimental work proving the existence of isotopes.

Stefanie Horovitz was killed by Nazis at Treblinka extermination camp in 1942.

Stefanie Horovitz's father was the artist Leopold Horovitz, a successful painter known for Baroque style portraiture.

Stefanie Horovitz was educated at the University of Vienna beginning in 1907, earning a PhD in organic chemistry in 1914.

Stefanie Horovitz's advisor was Guido Goldschmiedt and her doctoral research was on the rearrangement of quinone using sulfuric acid.

At the recommendation of Lise Meitner, Horovitz was recruited by Otto Honigschmid at the Institute for Radium Research, Vienna in 1913 or 1914.

Stefanie Horovitz undertook the laborious process of separating, purifying, and measuring lead with fine accuracy.

However, after Honigschmid's death Stefanie Horovitz's name seems to have been dropped and her contribution nearly forgotten.

Stefanie Horovitz returned to Warsaw with her sister in 1937, and Nazis descended on the city forming a Jewish ghetto in 1940.

Records indicate Stefanie Horovitz was murdered in a gas chamber in 1942.