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Lina Stern Lina Solomonovna Stern (1878-1968) was credited with inventing "Soviet penicillin" which saved thousands of lives at the fronts of World War II. Born in Liepaja, Latvia to a Jewish family and educated in Geneve, Switzerland, she pursued a brilliant academic career and performed original research in biochemistry and in the neurosciences. From 1918 onwards she was the first woman awarded professional rank at the University of Geneva, being a Professor of chemio-physiology, and researching cellular oxidation. In 1925 she had emigrated to the Soviet Union out of ideological convictions. In 1925-1948 she was a Professor of the 2nd Medical Institute and in 1929-1948 — the Director of Institute of Physiology of the USSR Academy of Sciences. In 1939 she became the first female full member of the Academy. In 1943 she won the Stalin Award. She became a member of Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (JAC) in 1942. When JAC was eradicated in January 1949, Stern was the only one who survived out of fifteen arrested. She was sentenced to a term in prison followed by 5 year exile to Jambul. After Stalin's death she was allowed to return to Moscow and in 1954-1968 headed the Department of Physiology at Biophysics Institute. Stern, Lina Stern, Lina Stern, Lina Stern, Lina
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