Marjory Stephenson

Marjory Stephenson
MBE FRS ARRC
Born(1885-01-24)24 January 1885
Burwell, Cambridgeshire, England
Died12 December 1948(1948-12-12) (aged 63)
Cambridge, England
Alma materNewnham College, Cambridge
Known forBacterial Metabolism (1930)
Scientific career
FieldsBiochemistry, microbiology
InstitutionsUniversity College London
University of Cambridge

Marjory Stephenson (24 January 1885 – 12 December 1948) was a British biochemist. In 1945, she was one of the first two women elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, the other being Kathleen Lonsdale.[1]

She wrote Bacterial Metabolism (1930), which ran to three editions and was a standard textbook for generations of microbiologists. A founder of the Society for General Microbiology, she also served as its second president.[2] In 1953, the Society established the Marjory Stephenson Memorial Lecture (now the Marjory Stephenson Prize Lecture) in her memory.[2] This is the Society's principal prize, awarded biennially for an outstanding contribution of current importance in microbiology.[3]

  1. ^ Robertson, Muriel (1949). "Marjory Stephenson. 1885–1948". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 6 (18): 562–577. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1949.0013. JSTOR 768940. S2CID 162259455.
  2. ^ a b A short history of the Society for General Microbiology Archived 12 February 2010 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Prize Lectures Archived 11 April 2010 at the Wayback Machine, The Society for General Microbiology