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Jan 24, 1885 Burwell, England, United Kingdom Died on 12 Dec 1948 (aged 63)
British biochemist
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About Marjory Stephenson
- Marjory Stephenson, MBE, FRS (24 January 1885 – 12 December 1948) was a British biochemist.
- In 1945, she was one of the first two women (the other being Kathleen Lonsdale) elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.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.
