11 Facts About Antoinette Pirie

Antoinette Pirie was a British biochemist, ophthalmologist, and educator.

Antoinette Pirie was educated at Wycombe Abbey School, and then achieved a first-class honours in natural sciences from Newnham College, Cambridge in 1932.

Antoinette Pirie completed her PhD at the biochemical laboratory in Cambridge under the professorship of Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins.

In 1939, for her postdoctoral work, Pirie joined a team at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund's Mill Hill laboratories, led by Ida Mann.

Antoinette Pirie was dedicated to the study of the eye for the rest of her life.

Mann and Antoinette Pirie researched the problems of ocular development, metabolism and toxicology.

Antoinette Pirie set up a nutrition center at Madurai, Tamil Nadu to identify vegetables seldom used but rich in vitamin A and encouraged gardening of these vegetables.

Antoinette Pirie established the Xerophthalmia Bulletin in 1972 and was the editor and secretary.

Antoinette Pirie became an expert on the radioactive hazards of nuclear explosions.

Antoinette Pirie's husband was chairman of the CND scientific committee for several years.

Antoinette Pirie died in Oxford, survived by her husband and two children.