Seraphima Schachowa

Seraphima Schachova , also known as Serafina Schachova or Seraphima Schachowa (1854 -unknown) was a Russian physician known for her discovery of the spiral tubes of Schachova, part of the kidney's duct system, a segment of the nephron between the proximal convoluted tubule and the loop of Henle.

She grew up in Ekaterinoslav, modern-day Ukraine, in a somewhat well-off family and an area rife with class tensions. She studied medicine at the University of Zurich from 1871 to 1873 (leaving the university with "Generalzeugnis" ("general certificate") Schachova returned to Russia in 1877 and practiced medicine in that country until 1910, when she moved to Kharkhov, Ukraine. The details of the end of her life are unknown.