Ida Kraus Ragins
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Ida Kraus Ragins | |
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| Born | 10 October 1894 Northwestern Medical School Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine |
Ida Kraus Ragins, née Kraus (10 October 1894 – September 1985[1]), was a Russian Empire-born American biochemist.
Life and work
Ida Kraus Ragins was born in the
Cook County Hospital in 1937. Kraus Ragins married Oscar B. Ragins, a physician, the same year that she received her Ph.D. and had her daughter, Naomi, in 1926 and a son, Herzl, in 1929.[2]
Both of her children became doctors.
Kraus Ragins specialized in protein specificity reactions and amino acids before she moved to
Northwestern Medical School in 1946 where she became a senior chemist in experimental medicine. She remained there for only three years before accepting a position at the Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine as head of the department of biochemistry in 1949. No further information on her life is available.[2]
Notes
- ^ "United States Social Security Death Index". FamilySearch. Retrieved 11 March 2019.
- ^ a b Ogilvie & Harvey, p. 1540
References
- ISBN 0-415-92039-6.