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Angela Merkel
Angela Merkel, the first woman to serve as chancellor of Germany, 2012.
Before entering politics, Angela Merkel worked as a member of the academic faculty at the Central Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Academy of Sciences in East Berlin. She held this position after earning her degree in physics from Karl Marx University and prior to receiving her doctorate in quantum chemistry in 1986.12