Julia Lermontova

Julia Lermontova (Russian: Юлия Всеволодовна Лермонтова) (21 December 1846 – 16 December 1919 O.S. 2 January 1847) was a Russian chemist. She is known as the first Russian woman to earn a doctorate in chemistry. She studied at the University of Heidelberg and the University of Berlin before she received her doctorate by the University of Göttingen in 1874. She was inducted to the Russian Chemical Society in 1875.