Marjory Stephenson FRS
(1884-1948)
woman, biochemist, microbiologist, and Fellow of the Royal Society
Died aged c. 64
Wikidata WikipediaMarjory Stephenson MBE FRS ARRC (24 January 1885 – 12 December 1948) was a British biochemist. In 1945, she was one of the first two women elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, the other being Kathleen Lonsdale. She wrote Bacterial Metabolism (1930), which ran to three editions and was a standard textbook for generations of microbiologists. A founder of the Society for General Microbiology, she also served as its second president. In 1953, the Society established the Marjory Stephenson Memorial Lecture (now the Marjory Stephenson Prize Lecture) in her memory. This is the Society's principal prize, awarded biennially for an outstanding contribution of current importance in microbiology.
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Marjory Stephenson 1884-1948 biochemist and microbiologist , and one of the first female Fellows of the Royal Society lived here as a child
Mitchams Agricultural Machinery Ltd (ex Pit's Farm), Cambridge, United Kingdom where they lived