| Authorised form of name | Vaughan; Dame; Janet Maria (1899 - 1993) |
| Dates | 1899 - 1993 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Clifton, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England |
| Date of birth | 18 October 1899 |
| Date of death | 09/01/1993 |
| Research field | Radiobiology |
| Haematology |
| Activity | Education:
At home, by governesses; North Foreland Lodge (aged 15); Somerville College, Oxford. BSc (1922, Physiology), BM, BCh (1924, Oxford)
Career:
Unable to pursue her medical career due to her mother's illness and death, and the need to entertain for her father, who was Headmaster at Rugby School (1924-1929); Assistant in Clinical Pathology, University College Hospital, London (1927) where she became interested in haematology; Rockefeller Travelling Fellow, working at Thorndike Memorial Laboratory, Boston City Hospital, USA, her father having remarried (1929-1930); Assistant Pathologist at a non-teaching hospital (1930-1931); Bernard Baron Institute of Pathology, The London Hospital, to study blood and bone disease, first as Beit Memorial Fellow (3 years), then as Leverhulme Research Scholar (1 year); Assistant in Clincial Pathology, Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital (1935); seconded as Medical Officer in Charge, North West London Blood Supply Depot, Slough (World War II); member of Goodenough Committe on medical education (1942); Trustee, Nuffield Foundation (1943-1967); worked with Rosalind Pitt-Rivers (FRS 1954) on nutritional study of force-marched prisoners of war (1945); member of the Royal Commission on equal pay for men and women (1944); Principal, Somerville College (1945-1967); member of the University Grants Medical Advisory Committe (1953-1963); Vice-Chairman (1948) and Chairman (1950-1951) Oxford Regional Hospital Board; research work funded by Medical Research Council (MRC (1947); retired (1967); featured in the BBC series 'Women of our century' (1984)
Honours:
OBE 1944; DBE 1957 |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 15/03/1979 |
| Relationships | Eldest child of William Wyamar Vaughan, schoolmaster, and his wife Margaret Symonds; married (1930) David Gourlay; two daughters Mary (b 1933) and Patricia (b 1935) |
| Source | Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1995 vol 41 pp 481-498, plate, by Maureen Owen
References:
E A Fellmann, 'The Principia and Continental Mathematicians' in NR 1988 vol 42 pp 13-34
Evans, S. (2024) 'Bloomsbury, Belsen, Oxford: Janet Vaughan - medical pioneer' (U. of Chester P.) |
| Code | NA8093 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| GLB/65/6/2 | Miss C M Bannister to Dame Janet Vaughan, North Middlesex Hospital, Silver Street, Edmonton, London | 24 May 1963 |
| GLB/19/1/13 | Janet Maria Vaughan, Principal, Somerville College, Oxford to Brown | 28 January 1960 |
| GLB/65/104/7 | Brown to Janet Vaughan, Principal, Somerville College to Brown | 1 February 1961 |
| GLB/65/104/11 | Brown to Janet Vaughan, Principal, Somerville College | 25 June 1962 |
| GLB/65/104/10 | Janet Vaughan, Principal, Somerville College to Brown | 1962 |
| GLB/65/104/9 | Brown to Janet Vaughan, Principal, Somerville College | 11 June 1962 |
| GLB/65/104/8 | Janet Vaughan, Principal, Somerville College to Brown | 8 February 1961 |
| IM/GA/JGRS/8149 | Vaughan, Dame Janet Maria | 1979 |
| EC/1979/37 | Vaughan, Janet Maria: certificate of election to the Royal Society | 1978 |