23 Facts About Winifred Cullis

Winifred Cullis was a physiologist and academic, and the first woman to hold a professorial chair at a medical school.

Winifred Cullis was initially educated at a middle school, the Summer Hill School, and at 16 transferred to the associated King Edward VI High School for Girls, Birmingham and took extra science classes at Mason College.

Winifred Cullis entered Newnham College, Cambridge in 1896, financed by a Sidgwick scholarship, and achieved a second in both parts of the natural sciences tripos.

Winifred Cullis was not awarded a degree since Cambridge did not award degrees to women at this time.

Winifred Cullis was awarded DSc by London University in 1908 for Experiments upon the isolated mammalian heart, especially with regard to the action of defibrinated blood upon it.

Winifred Cullis was described as having a generous spirit and had a gift for making persuasive and engaging speeches.

Winifred Cullis's values were as a feminist and intellectual with great personal integrity and loyalty.

Winifred Cullis died on 13 November 1956 at her home, Vincent House in Pembridge Square, London.

Winifred Cullis was appointed as a co-lecturer with T G Brodie from 1903 and then as a part-time lecturer in 1908.

Winifred Cullis collaborated with several others including William Dobinson Halliburton and Walter Ernest Dixon.

Winifred Cullis finally became a professor of physiology at the University of London in 1919 and the named Sophia Jex-Blake chair of physiology in 1926.

Winifred Cullis was the second woman in the UK to be appointed to a chair at a British university-level institution.

In 1915 Winifred Cullis was one of the first five women elected as members of the Physiological Society and served on the society's committee from 1918 to 1925.

Winifred Cullis was author or co-author of at least 18 scientific publications as well as several books.

Winifred Cullis gave a very large number of public talks.

Winifred Cullis gave many talks and other presentations for science outreach.

Winifred Cullis spoke at the Women's Engineering Society's seventh Annual Conference in July 1929, alongside architect Edna Mosley and Helena Normanton, the first woman to practise as a barrister in England and second woman to be called to the Bar of England and Wales.

Winifred Cullis considered that biology and the applications of science to life should be part of everyone's knowledge and included in the school curriculum.

Winifred Cullis was awarded honorary degrees by Vassar College, USA, Goucher College, USA, and Birmingham University.

Winifred Cullis was president of the British Federation of University Women and the International Federation of University Women.

Winifred Cullis was a member of a large number of committees in the later part of her career.

Winifred Cullis was chairman of the British Film Institute's educational panel, and from 1951 until her death, deputy chair of the English-Speaking Union.

Winifred Cullis was a director of the Time and Tide magazine.