Dr Rahel Plaut (1894-1993) was a doctor and researcher in physiology who became the first female academic to be appointed at Hamburg University School of Medicine.
Between 1919 and 1924 she co-authored 25 scientific papers on subjects including metabolism, muscle physiology and infectious disease.
She married the historian Hans Liebeschuetz(German: Liebeschütz) in Hamburg in 1924.
They emigrated to England in 1938 to escape Nazi persecution.