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): Alla Pugacheva • Cam Janssen • Dara Torres • Desiré Ecaré • Fruit Chan • George Harrison Shull • Helene Hanff • Henry James • Jeromy Burnitz • Jurriaan Schrofer • Kim Il Sung • Kim Min-kyo • Lou Romano • Manoj Prabhakar • Manzoor Elahi • Michael Ansara • Nicolas Chopin • Nikolai Gumilev • Pınar Kür • Raül López (basketball) • Soichi Noguchi • Steven Defour • Theo Osterkamp • Walt Hazzard

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