Asteroids named after people called Margarethe
(355256) Margarethekahn
Margarethe Kahn (1880鈥揷. 1942) was a German mathematician and Holocaust victim. A pioneer of women鈥檚 education, she was among the first women in Germany to earn a doctorate, completing her dissertation under David Hilbert in 1909. Dismissed from her teaching position in 1936, she went missing in 1942 after being deported to Poland.Discovered 20 May 2007 by CSS, Catalina