Marjory Stephenson

Marjory Stephenson, MBE, FRS (24 January 1885 - 12 December 1948) was a British biochemist.^[1] She was one of the first two women (the other being Kathleen Lonsdale) elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1945.

She was the author of the textbook Bacterial Metabolism, and the second president of the Society for General Microbiology^[2]. The Marjory Stephenson Memorial Lecture (now Marjory Stephenson Prize Lecture), was established in 1953 in her memory^[2]. This is the Society's principal prize, awarded biennially for an outstanding contribution of current importance in microbiology.^[3]

Early life

In 1911 she began research on fat metabolism at University College, London and taught advanced nutrition. During the First World War she worked for the Red Cross, running hospital kitchens in France and a nurses' convalescent home in Salonika. She was mentioned in dispatches and was made MBE for her War effort.^[1]

In 1919 she moved to the biochemistry laboratory of Newnham College and specialized in bacterial metabolic studies.

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Joan Mason, ‘Stephenson, Marjory (1885–1948)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004
2. ^ ^{a b} http://www.sgm.ac.uk/about/history.cfm
3. ^ http://www.sgm.ac.uk/about/prize_lectures.cfm

External links

• Newnham College – Newnham Biographies – Marjory Stephenson (1885 - 1948)
• Marjory Stephenson, 1885–1948, by Joan Mason, in Cambridge Women, ed. Edward Shils & Carmen Blacker, Cambridge University Press 1996

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Name	Stephenson, Marjory
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Short description	British biochemist
Date of birth	24 January 1885
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Date of death	12 December 1948 (aged 63)
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