Nadine Dobrovolskaïa-Zavadskaïa

Nadine Dobrovolskaïa-Zavadskaïa was a Russian and French researcher, surgeon and geneticist. She was likely born in Kyiv, studied in Saint Petersburg and was the first woman to become professor of surgery in Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, in 1918. Where 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.