Ida Freund

Ida Freund was the first woman to be a university chemistry lecturer in the United Kingdom. She is known for her influence on science teaching, particularly the teaching of women and girls. She wrote two key chemistry textbooks and invented the idea of baking periodic table cupcakes, as well as inventing a gas measuring tube, which was named after her.

15 April 1863

Born on the same birth day (15 April): Arshile Gorky • Brian Muir (sculptor) • Brodie Grundy • Clark McConachy • Claudia Cardinale • David Omand • Georgy Beregovoy • Guru Arjan • Kenneth Bloomfield • Mott Green • Nicolas Chopin • Robert Lacroix • Steve Williams (rower) • Veronica Linklater, Baroness Linklater of Butterstone

Born in the same month (April 1863): Augustus Edward Hough Love • Constantine P. Cavafy • Hemmo Kallio • Josiah Thomas (politician) • Leopold Berchtold • Linton Hope • Mary Theresa Ledóchowska • Nikolai von Meck • Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine • Raul Pompeia • Siegfried Bettmann • William Randolph Hearst