Description: (Pathologist)
Sophia Getzowa was a pathologist and scientist known for her significant contributions to medicine. Despite discrimination based on her identity as a Jew, a woman, and a foreigner, she persevered in her career. Getzowa conducted important research on the thyroid, including identifying solid cell nests. She worked in Switzerland and Paris before becoming a pathologist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she became the first female professor. Throughout her career, she collaborated with prominent European scientists until her retirement in 1940.