Marjory Stephenson
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British biochemist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Marjory Stephenson 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 , 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 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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