1. Grace Coleridge Frankland known as Mrs Percy Frankland nee Grace Toynbee was an English microbiologist.
11 Facts About Grace Frankland
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Grace Frankland was one of the nineteen female scientists who wrote the 1904 petition to the Chemical Society to request that they should create some female fellows of the society.
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Grace Frankland was the youngest of nine children; her parents were Harriet and Joseph Toynbee, a noted otologist.
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Grace Frankland was home schooled and spent one year at Bedford College, Grace Frankland married Percy Frankland in 1882, and with him developed an interest in the emerging science of bacteriology.
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Grace Frankland worked with both Percy and his father Edward Frankland and was described at the time as having "worthily aided and seconded [Percy]".
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Grace Frankland co-authored papers with her husband on bacteria and other microorganisms found in the air and water.
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Grace Frankland was the co-author of two volumes: MicroOrganisms in Water: their Significance, Identification, and Removal and the biography Pasteur.
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Grace Frankland was one of the nineteen signatories of the 1904 petition to the Chemical Society.
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Grace Frankland was a Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society, admitted into the Linnean Society of London, and an honorary member of Bedford College.
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Grace Frankland's husband held positions as professor of Chemistry Birmingham, and Dundee universities.
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Grace Frankland's papers are part of the Frankland family papers, held by the University of Manchester Library.