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Authorised form of name	Rees; Florence Gwendolen (1906 - 1994); parasitologist
Dates	1906 - 1994
Nationality	British
Place of birth	Abercynon, Glamorgan, Wales
Date of birth	03/07/1906
Place of death	Bronglais Hospital, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Wales
Date of death	04/10/1994
Occupation	Parasitologist
Research field	Zoology
	Helminthology
	Parasitology
Activity	Education: Intermediate School (now Aberdare Girls' Grammar School) (1918-1924); University College of Wales, Cardiff. BSc (1927, Zoology), Postgraduate teacher training, PhD (1930), DSc (1942, University of Wales) Career: Postgraduate work in parasitology; Assistant Lecturer in Zoology, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth (1930-1973); Air Raid Warden, and teacher of First Aid (World War II); Lecturer (1937); Senior Lecturer (1947); received a grant from the Royal Society to purchase equipment (1948); Acting Head of Department (1948, 1969 and 1970); member of the Editorial Board of 'Parasitology' (1960-1970) and Chairman of the Board (1970-1981); Visiting scientist, University of Ghana (Accra) (1961); used part of a Shell Grants Committee grant to fund two months work at the Marine Biological Station, St George's West, Bermuda (1963); Reader in Zoology (1966); Professor (1971); Chairman, School of Biological Studies (1972); retired (1973) but contined research as Professor Emeritus, School of Biological Sciences; appeared in an article on influencial British women in 'Vogue' (1975); Fellow, University of Wales, Cardiff (1981). Memberships: British Society for Parasitology (Founder Member, Honorary Member, President 1974-1976) Hon Fellow American Society of Parasitologists (1976) Fellow of the Institute of Biology (1971) Awards/Medals: Linnean medal 1990
Membership category	Fellow
Date of election	18/03/1971
Age at election	64
Proposer	Francis Charles Fraser
	Edward Hindle
	Sidnie Milana Manton
	George Salt
	Robert Thomson Leiper
	Ann Bishop
Relationships	Parents: Ebenezer Rees, policeman, and Elizabeth Agnes Jones.
OtherInfo	Distinguished for her work on Helminthology, having made important contributions to knowledge of the life-cycles, histology, biology, and systematics of cestode and trematode worms. The first Welsh woman to become a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Royal Society Obituary or Memoir	Click to view (may be contained within a meeting notice, presidential address or list of death notices)
Source	Obituaries: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1997 vol 43 pp 443-459, plate, by J Gareth Morris
Code	NA3016

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RefNo	Title	Date
EC/1971/24	Rees, Florence Gwendolen: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/GA/GRS/5789	Rees, Florence Gwendolen	nd

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