Rosalind Venetia Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers FRS was a British biochemist.
11 Facts About Rosalind Pitt-Rivers
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Rosalind Pitt-Rivers became the second president of the European Thyroid Association in 1971; she succeeded Jean Roche and was followed by Jack Gross in this position, all three names inextricably linked with the discovery of the thyroid hormone triiodothyronine.
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Rosalind Pitt-Rivers's father was the third son of Anthony Henley, 3rd Baron Henley and her mother the daughter of Lord Stanley of Alderley.
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Rosalind Pitt-Rivers was educated at home and later at Notting Hill High School at the age of thirteen.
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Rosalind Pitt-Rivers later studied at Bedford College, where she was awarded a Bachelor of Science in 1930 with first class honours and an MSc in 1931.
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Rosalind Pitt-Rivers joined the scientific staff of the National Institute for Medical Research in Mill Hill London in 1942, the largest institute of the UK Medical Research Council.
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Rosalind Pitt-Rivers later became head of the Division of Chemistry, and retired in 1972.
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Rosalind Pitt-Rivers was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1954.
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Rosalind Pitt-Rivers became stepmother to the two sons from his first marriage, Michael and Julian.
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Rosalind Pitt-Rivers gave birth to a son, Anthony Pitt-Rivers, in 1932, but the marriage was dissolved in 1937.
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Rosalind Pitt-Rivers died on 14 January 1990, aged 82, at Hinton St Mary, Dorset, England.