Margrét Guðnadóttir
Icelandic virologist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Margrét Guðmunda Guðnadóttir was an Icelandic doctor and virologist and the first woman to become a professor at the University of Iceland. Career Margrét completed her matriculation examination from the mathematics department at Menntaskólinn í Reykjavík in the spring of 1949. In the autumn, she enrolled as a medical student at the University of Iceland and graduated in the spring of 1956. During the summers of 1954 and 1955, she worked at the Keldur Institute for Experimental Pathology, researching pneumonia and the spread of the influenza epidemic. After graduating from the Faculty of Medicine in the spring of 1956, she worked for one year at Keldur. Her first project was to map the spread of the polio epidemic that hit Iceland in the autumn of 1955. This was part of the preparation work for the polio vaccination programme that began in the summer of 1957.
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