Elly Agallidis

Elly Agallidis (Greek: Έλλη Αγαλλίδου, pronounced [ˈeli aɣaˈliðu]; known as Elly Schwab-Agallidis after marriage; 14 August 1914 – 24 December 2006) was a Greek physicist/physical chemist and one of the first women in Greece to be awarded a PhD in the field. She was the wife of Georg-Maria Schwab, who met her in Munich as the supervisor of the experimental work for her doctoral thesis; the couple then worked together as researchers in the Kanellopoulos Institute after they emigrated in Greece. Her most famous work concerned the properties and reactivity of parahydrogen.

Elly Agallidis

Elly Agallidis (Greek: Έλλη Αγαλλίδου, pronounced [ˈeli aɣaˈliðu]; known as Elly Schwab-Agallidis after marriage; 14 August 1914 – 24 December 2006) was a Greek physicist/physical chemist and one of the first women in Greece to be awarded a PhD in the field. She was the wife of Georg-Maria Schwab, who met her in Munich as the supervisor of the experimental work for her doctoral thesis; the couple then worked together as researchers in the Kanellopoulos Institute after they emigrated in Greece. Her most famous work concerned the properties and reactivity of parahydrogen.