Margarete Furcht (also Margaret and Margarethe) (10 November 1879 – 12 February 1976) was an Austrian-born British chemist, the daughter of a Jewish stockbroker. She was the first female chemist to obtain a doctoral degree certificate in Austria-Hungary.
Furcht fled Austria after the Anschluss, settling in London, and was declared exempt from internment on 30 November 1939.UK, World War II Alien Internees, 1939-1945 for Margarethe Furcht She was living that year in Islington.
Furcht died on 12 February 1976 in London, aged 96.
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