Veronica Vaida: ‘Some Harvard faculty expressed puzzlement at having a woman colleague’
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Rebecca Trager2026-02-20T09:42:00
The renowned physical chemist and environmental scientist on growing up in Romania and forging her career as a woman in the US in the 1970s
I was born in Bucharest, Romania but consider my hometown to be Cluj in Transylvania. My family moved back to Bucharest when I was a young teenager.
My mother was from Cluj. Hungarian Jews like my mother’s family were deported and many killed, but my mother and her younger brother survived.