Elizabeth Joan Stokes
English bacteriologist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Elizabeth Joan Stokes was an English bacteriologist. She spent the majority of her career as a clinical bacteriologist at University College Hospital in London. Biography Elizabeth Joan Stokes was born on 6 May 1912 in Hampstead, London, to Thomas Rooke, an engineer, and Elizabeth Frances Pearce, whose father was the Liberal MP Robert Pearce. She attended University College Hospital Medical School and graduated with an MBBS in 1937. She worked at UCH as a house physician, house surgeon and casualty officer before becoming a medical registrar under Thomas Lewis in 1940. When UCH was evacuated to Cardiff in 1941, Stokes decided to make a career change from clinical medicine to pathology. She began training as a pathologist at the London Public Health Laboratory in Watford, where she worked with Arnold Ashley Miles. She was promoted to the role of public health bacteriologist in 1944 and returned to UCH as a clinical bacteriologist in 1946. She was the first person to hold that position at UCH, and remained there until her retirement in 1977.
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