Margarete von Wrangell was a pioneering agricultural chemist who in 1923 became the first woman to hold a full professorship at a German university, leading the Institute for Plant Nutrition she founded at the Agricultural Research Station in Hohenheim until her death in 1932. Beginning work at Hohenheim in 1918 and heading its department from 1920, she focused her research on plant nutrition and soil chemistry, completing a 1920 habilitation on the uptake of phosphoric acid and soil reactions and publishing influential work on fertilization; two German institutions, a foundation established in 1992 and a habilitation program for women launched in 1997, later carried her name in her honor.
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Defining ContributionFirst female full professor at a German university, appointed full professor in Plant Nutrition at Hohenheim in 1923. 1 Sources
1. Margarete von Wrangell - Wikipedia
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Margarethe Mathilde von Wrangell, after 1928 Princess Andronikow, nee Baroness von Wrangell (7 January 1877 - 21 March 1932) was a Baltic German agricultural chemist and the first female full professor at a German university.
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Margarethe Mathilde von Wrangell, after 1928 Princess Andronikow, nee Baroness von Wrangell (7 January 1877 - 21 March 1932) was a Baltic German agricultural chemist and the first female full professor at a German university.
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Margarethe Mathilde von Wrangell, after 1928 Princess Andronikow, nee Baroness von Wrangell (7 January 1877 - 21 March 1932) was a Baltic German agricultural chemist and the first female full professor at a German university.
Career section, 1923 professorship
In 1923, she was appointed a full professor in Plant Nutrition at Hohenheim.
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