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发帖数: 12367 | 1 Dr. Irja Piirma (Tiits) of Stow passed away December 5, 2009 in her home in
Stow, Ohio. She was 89 years old.
Born in Tallinn, Estonia, she left her homeland during World War II for
Germany, where she and her husband survived the Dresden fire-bombing in 1945
and as a post-war displaced person, she completed a diploma in chemistry
from Technische Hochshule Darmstadt and immigrated to the U.S. in 1949. She
received an M.S. in Chemistry in 1957 and became the first woman granted a
Ph.D. from The Un |
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