M. S. Schreiber – the First Woman in the World to Make a Discovery in Chromatography. On the 120th anniversary of her birth

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In September of this year, the 120th anniversary of the birth of Maria Semenovna Schreiber, co-author of the outstanding physicist-chemist Nikolai Arkadievich Izmailov on the famous article of 1938, from which the history of thin-layer chromatography is started. The biography and heritage of N. A. Izmailov have been studied quite deeply, unlike M. S. Schreiber. Little is known about her, besides the fact that she did her scientific work in chromatography when she was a graduate student and worked under the supervision of N. A. Izmailov. Meanwhile, Maria Semenovna Schreiber (1904–1992) is the world's first woman to make a discovery in chromatography. In 1938, N. A. Izmailov and M. S. Schreiber came up with a new chromatography method, which was later called thin-layer chromatography (TLC). The article presents for the first time a biography of Schreiber, as well as some of the events and people that may have served as the source of the two scientists' interest in chromatography.

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Elena V. Rybakova

Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry of the RAS

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Email: rybakova_elena@list.ru

Leading Specialist of the ETC; Scientific Secretary of the Joint Commission on Chromatography of the Scientific Councils on Analytical and Physical Chemistry of the RAS

Russian Federation, Moscow

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4. Schreiber and her students, early 1970s. Viktor Georgievsky is the one on the far right

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5. Article with an inscript by M. S. Schreiber to Prof. V. V. Aleksandrov, pupil and successor of N. A. Izmailov at the Department of Physical Chemistry of the Kharkov University

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