Pauline Ramart
French chemist
Pauline Ramart, also known as Pauline Ramart-Lucas, (22 November 1880 – 17 March 1953) was a French chemist and politician. Active in organic chemistry, she was the second woman to be appointed as a full professor at the University of Paris, after Marie Curie. As a Jewish women she was dismissed from her teaching post at the Sorbonne during World War II, but became active in the French resistance.
Early life and education
Born on 22 November 1880 in Paris, Pauline Lucas was the daughter of blacksmith René Lucas and his wife Marie Perrine Ceniguar. To support her studies, she sold artificial flowers in the neighbourhood of the Sorbonne. When she was 18, she gave birth to her son Auguste René Lucas on 17 July 1898. He grew up to be a physicist, director of the École supérieure de physique et de chimie industrielles de la ville de Paris, professor of physics at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Paris and a member of the Academy of Sciences.
On 3 October 1911, Pauline Lucas married the lawyer Maurice Charles Auguste Ramart, born 26 January 1863 and took his surname.
Determined to study, in 1904 she enrolled in evening classes and correspondence courses. After earning her baccalauréat (secondary school diploma), she worked in Albin Haller's laboratory at the Faculté des Sciences.
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