19 Facts About Marjory Stephenson

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Marjory Stephenson wrote Bacterial Metabolism, which ran to three editions and was a standard textbook for generations of microbiologists.

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Marjory Stephenson's father Robert was a farmer, surveyor and owner of a cement-manufacturing company; her mother was Sarah Rogers.

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Robert Marjory Stephenson was a prominent figure in the local community, appointed as a Justice of the Peace and then Deputy Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire; he was a chairman of the County Council.

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Marjory Stephenson employed many local people in his cement works.

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Marjory Stephenson was the youngest of the family by nine years.

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Marjory Stephenson was first inspired to take an interest in science by her governess Anna Jane Botwright.

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Marjory Stephenson later studied at the Berkhamsted School for Girls in Hertfordshire.

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8.

Marjory Stephenson read Natural Sciences, taking courses in chemistry, physiology and zoology for Part I of the Natural Sciences Tripos.

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Marjory Stephenson originally intended to study medicine after Newnham, but her plans changed due to a lack of funds and she became a domestic science teacher, first at Gloucester County Training College and then at King's College of Household Science, London.

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Marjory Stephenson was awarded a Beit Memorial Fellowship in 1913, but her work was interrupted by the First World War.

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Marjory Stephenson was mentioned in despatches, and, in December 1918, was appointed Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.

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Marjory Stephenson received an Associate Royal Red Cross in recognition of her service.

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Marjory Stephenson was financed by her Beit Fellowship and later by the Medical Research Council.

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Marjory Stephenson was finally appointed a University lecturer in biochemistry in 1943.

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Later in the 1930s Marjory Stephenson worked with Ernest Gale on enzyme adaptation and amino acid metabolism, and with Arthur Trim on metabolic studies of nucleic acids.

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Marjory Stephenson is most widely remembered for her seminal book, Bacterial Metabolism, which ran to three editions between 1930 and 1949.

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One of the founders of the Society for General Microbiology, and Alexander Fleming tried to induce her to take the role of the Society's first President, but she declined; Marjory Stephenson was elected as its second president in 1947.

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Marjory Stephenson was influential in improving teaching of microbial biochemistry; she helped set up a special Part II Biochemistry in Cambridge in the same year.

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Marjory Stephenson died of cancer on 12 December 1948, a year after the university appointment.