Stefanie Horovitz

Stefanie Horovitz
Born1887 (1887)
Warsaw, Poland
Died1942 (aged 5455)
Treblinka extermination camp
Alma materUniversity of Vienna
Scientific career
InstitutionsInstitute for Radium Research, Vienna

Stefanie Horovitz (1887–1942) (Stefania Horovitz or Stephanie Horowitz) was a Polish-Jewish chemist known for experimental work proving the existence of isotopes. Between approximately 1914-1918, she worked with Otto Hönigschmid at the Radium Institute of Vienna using analytical methods to demonstrate the first and second credible cases of isotopes in lead and thorium. Later she co-founded a home for children and young adults in need of psychological therapy. She was killed by Nazis at Treblinka extermination camp in 1942.