"I am to archaeologists what the is to tourists. They keep coming to see if the old lady is still around. And working."
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Margarete Bieber
(31 July 1879 – 25 February 1978) was a Jewish, German-American , , and professor. She was the second woman in Germany to become a professor extraordinarius. She, with her adopted daughter, in 1932 fled Germany and went to England and then in 1934 immigrated to the United States. Bieber was elected in 1971 a member of the . She received in 1974 the of the .
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