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Aug 17, 1933 90 years old
American biologist
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About Margaret Kidwell
- Margaret Gale Kidwell (born August 17, 1933) is a British American evolutionary biologist and Regents’ Professor Emerita at the University of Arizona, Tucson.
- She grew up on a farm in the English Midlands during World War II.
- After graduating from the University of Nottingham in 1953, she worked in the British Civil Service as an Agricultural Advisory Officer from 1955-1960.
- She moved to the US in 1960 under the auspices of a Kellogg Foundation Fellowship to study Genetics and Statistics at Iowa State University.
- She married quantitative geneticist James F.
- Kidwell in 1961, obtained her MS degree in 1962 and moved with her husband to Brown University in 1963.
- She received her PhD from Brown University in 1973 under the guidance of Masatoshi Nei.
- From 1973 to 1984 she pursued independent research into a number of anomalous genetic phenomena in Drosophila which later lead to collaborative studies resulting in the discovery of hybrid dysgenesis and the isolation of transposable P elements.
- After appointment as Professor of Biology at Brown University in 1984 she moved to the University of Arizona in 1985 as Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.
- Additional positions included Chair of the Interdisciplinary Genetics Program from 1988-1991 and Head of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from 1992-1997.
- Research at the University of Arizona has increasingly focused on the evolutionary significance of transposable genetic elements.
- In 1996, she was the first woman from Arizona to be elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences.
