Elizaveta Karamihailova

Elisabeth Ivanova Kara-Michailova
Born(1897-09-03)3 September 1897
Died24 April 1968(1968-04-24) (aged 70)
Sofia, Bulgaria
Alma materUniversity of Vienna
Known forCosmic ray, radioluminescence and ionization studies
Scientific career
Fieldsnuclear physics

Elisabeth Ivanova Kara-Michailova (Bulgarian: Елисавета Иванова Карамихайлова), alternatively Elisabeth Karamichailova was a Bulgarian physicist of a Bulgarian father and an English mother. She was among the handful of female nuclear physics pioneers at the beginning of the 20th century, established the first practical courses of particle physics in Bulgaria and was the first woman to hold a professorial title in the country.