Janet Vaughan

Janet Vaughan

Dame Janet Maria Vaughan DBE FRS (married name Gourlay) (October 18, 1899 - January 9, 1993) was a British physiologist (haematologist).

Born in Clifton, Bristol she was the daughter of William Wyamar Vaughan, a cousin of Virginia Woolf and later headmaster of Rugby. Educated at home, and later at North Foreland Lodge and Somerville College, Oxford, where she studied under Charles Sherrington and John Scott Haldane.

From 1945 until her retirement in 1967, she was principle of Somerville. She was made DBE in 1957, and elected FRS in 1979.

External links

* http://www.pbs.org/wnet/redgold/innovators/bio_vaughan.html
* http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/101042277/
* http://www.jstor.org/pss/770158
* http://pt.wkhealth.com/pt/re/bjha/fulltext.00002328-200001000-00002.htm


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