Marion Bidder was an English physiologist and one of the first women to do independent research in Cambridge.
12 Facts About Marion Bidder
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Marion Bidder's father was a lay preacher and a shipping agent.
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Marion Bidder was one of the first women to be allowed to graduate with a double first in the natural sciences tripos.
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Marion Bidder completed botany, physiology and zoology in 1882 with more physiology in 1883.
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Marion Bidder began to study digestion after being inspired by the physiologist Michael Foster.
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Marion Bidder was one of the first women deciding her own research and she was the first winner of the Gamble Prize in 1888 for her dissertation.
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When she married marine biologist George Parker Bidder and gave up the position 11 years later in 1899, it took four people to replace her.
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In 1901, Domestic Economy in Theory and Practice was published, to which Marion Bidder contributed on the theoretical and scientific aspects of the subject.
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Marion Bidder was president of the Cambridge Women's Liberal Association and was passionate about women becoming involved in town councils.
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Marion Bidder held the position of vice-chairman of the Cambridgeshire Voluntary Association for Mental Welfare.
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Marion Bidder was a governor of both Homerton Teacher Training College in Cambridge and of Girton College.
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Marion Bidder served as governor of Girton College until her death, she died of tuberculosis on September 25,1932.