Elizabeth Roboz Einstein—the determined genius behind a multiple sclerosis breakthrough
By Marcy Thompson, The Lost Women of Science Initiative••Scientific American
A Hungarian refugee who came to the U.S. with nothing but a diploma made a breakthrough discovery in the burgeoning field of neurochemistry
Elizabeth Roboz Einstein’s life was shaped by the forces of history. She studied organic chemistry at the University of Vienna in the 1920s and then left her home country of Hungary during World War …