Audrey Jane Gibson was a British-American microbiologist and biochemist who worked in the field of photosynthetic bacteria.
15 Facts About Jane Gibson
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Jane Gibson discovered that selenium is required by the metabolism of coliform bacteria and described a new species of sulphur bacterium in the genus Chloroherpeton.
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Jane Gibson became a Professor at Cornell University in 1979 and was editor of the scientific journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology.
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Jane Gibson's mother was Katharine Kentisbeare, daughter of the Liberal MP, Sir George Radford.
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Jane Gibson attended The Maynard School in Exeter, England and went on to earn a first-class honours degree in biochemistry at Newnham College, Cambridge in 1946 under the advisory of biochemist, Marjory Stephenson.
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Whilst at the University of Sheffield, Audrey Jane Pinsent met her future husband, biochemist Quentin Gibson, in 1951.
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Jane Gibson later moved to the Section of Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology, and was promoted to full Professor in 1979.
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Jane Gibson's research focused on the transport and utilization of ammonia and other small organic compounds by the main groups of phototrophic bacteria, and she became expert in their care and culture.
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Jane Gibson was made a full professor in 1979 and in 1994 she won the Edith Edgerton Career Teaching Award.
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In 1983, Jane Gibson was appointed to the editorial board of the Journal of Bacteriology, where she served until 1991.
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Jane Gibson was a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology.
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When Jane Gibson's husband developed a stomach ulcer in 1969, they decided to spend their summers in Woods Hole.
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Jane Gibson taught summer microbiology courses at the Marine Biological Laboratory, whilst her husband collected fish blood for his research at Cornell University.
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Jane Gibson continued her teaching legacy in the microbiology department at the University of Texas Medical School, whilst her husband worked in a kinetics laboratory at Rice University.
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Jane Gibson died at her home in Etna on June 10,2008, aged 83.