| Authorised form of name | Beddington; Rosa Susan Penelope (1956 - 2001); developmental biologist |
| Dates | 1956 - 2001 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Hurstbourne Tarrant, Hampshire |
| Date of birth | 23/03/1956 |
| Place of death | Great Tew, Oxfordshire |
| Date of death | 18/05/2001 |
| Research field | Embryology |
| Activity | Education:
Sherborne School for Girls; Brasenose College, Oxford. BA (1977), DPhil (1981)
Career:
One of the first women to be admitted to Brasenose College, Oxford; Post-doctoral Fellow under Richard Gardner (FRS 1979), Sir William Dunn School of Pathology and Department of Zoology, Oxford University (1977-1983); Research Fellow, Lister Institute for Preventative Medicine, Oxford (1983-1988); work on gastrulation, Centre for Genome Research, Edinburgh (1991); Head of the Division of Mammalian Development at the MRC National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill, London (1993); Member, Molecular and Cellular Medicine Board, Medical Research Council; co-author with Lewis Wolpert (FRS 1980) of 'Manipulating the mouse embryo' (1994), and of 'Principles of development' (1998), both illustrated with her own drawings; died of cancer
Memberships:
British Society for Developmental Biology |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 13/05/1999 |
| Age at election | 43 |
| Relationships | Daughter of Roy Beddington, artist and fisherman; married (1987) Rev Robin Denniston |
| Source | Sources:
Obituaries:
Independent 22/05/2001; Times, Daily Telegraph 23/05/2001, Guardian 24/05/2001; Nature vol 412 p 138 (12 July 2001)
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 2005 vol 51 pp 15-32, plate, by Sohalia Rastan and Elizabeth Robertson |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/92090250 |
| Code | NA1551 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| IM/000315 | Beddington, Rosa Susan | 1999 |
| BED | Some papers of Rosa Susan Penelope Beddington FRS, biologist | 1975-2002 |
| EC/1999/03 | Beddington, Rosa Susan Penelope: certificate of election to the Royal Society | 1998 |