Nadiya Dobrovolska-Zavadska

Nadine Dobrovolskaïa-Zavadskaïa (Ukrainian: Надія Олексіївна Добровольська-Завадська; 25 September [O.S. 13 September] 1878 in Kiev, Russian Empire – 31 October 1954 in Milan, Italy) was a Russian Empire and French researcher, surgeon and geneticist. She was likely born in Kiev, studied in Saint Petersburg and was the first woman to become professor of surgery in the Russian Empire in 1918. Later she took part in Russian Civil War and fled to Egypt just to find second home in Paris. There she made a genetic and oncology research career discovering Brachyury gene in mice. Also she established RIII mouse strain which helped to discover MMTV retrovirus.