| Authorised form of name | Stephenson; Marjory (1885 - 1948) |
| Dates | 1885 - 1948 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Burwell, Cambridgeshire, England |
| Date of birth | 24 January 1885 |
| Place of death | Cambridge |
| Date of death | 12/12/1948 |
| Research field | Microbiology |
| Biochemistry |
| Activity | Education:
At home (until aged 12); Berkhampstead High School for Girls; Newnham College, Cambridge (matriculated 1903)
Career:
Studied, then taught, domestic science (for 5 years); assisted with teaching in R H A Plimmer's laboratory, University College, London (1911); researched animal lactase and the esters of palmitic acid, then later worked on experimental diabetes; worked with the Red Cross in France and Salonika (1914-1918) for which she received the MBE; biochemical department, Cambridge under Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins (FRS 1905); studied biochemical activities of bacteria; wrote 'Bacterial Metabolism' (first published 1930); collaborated with Juda Quastel (FRS 1940) on anaerobic growth in bacteria; one of the first two women to be elected to the Royal Society; Reader in Chemical Microbiology, Cambridge University (1947); helped to found the Society for General Microbiology (1945)
Honours:
MBE 1918
Memberships:
Society for General Microbiology (second President 1947) |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 22/03/1945 |
| Relationships | Daughter of Robert Stephenson, farmer, and his wife Sarah Rogers of Newmarket; unmarried |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB vol 18 pp 857-860
Obituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1948-1949 vol 6 pp 563-577, plate, by Muriel Robertson
References:
Joan Mason, 'The Admission of the First Women to the Royal Society of London' in NR 1992 vol 46 pp 279-300, plate
Joan Mason, 'The Women Fellows' Jubilee' in NR 1995 vol 49 pp 125-140 |
| Code | NA8092 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1945/19 | Stephenson, Marjory: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| NLB/62/231 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Miss Marjory Stephenson, FRS | 5 January 1922 |
| RR/26/138 | Referee's report by William Dobinson Halliburton, on a paper 'Studies in the fat metabolism of the timothy grass bacillus' by Marjory Stephenson and Margaret Dampier Whetham | 20 December 1921 |
| RR/29/55 | Referee's report by Arthur Harden, on a paper 'Studies in the fat metabolism of the Timothy Grass Bacillus. II.—The carbon balance-sheet and respiratory quotient' by Marjory Stephenson and Margaret Dampier Whetham | June 1923 |
| IM/004386 | Stephenson, Marjory | nd |
| IM/GA/WS/21835 | Stephenson, Marjory | nd |
| IM/004387 | Stephenson, Marjory | nd |
| MS/916 | Lecture notes by Gordon Elliott Fogg | 1938-1946 |
| RR/71/192 | Referee's report by Marjory Stephenson, on a paper 'Metabolic changes which form the basis of a microbiological assay of nicotinic acid' by H McIlwain | [1948] |