Igerna Sollas

Igerna Sollas
Born
Igerna Brünhilda Johnson Sollas

(1877-03-16)16 March 1877
Dawlish, Devon, England
DiedNovember 1965 (aged 88)
EducationAlexandra College
Alma materNewnham College, Cambridge
Scientific career
FieldsZoology, Geology
InstitutionsNewnham College, Cambridge

Igerna Brünhilda Johnson Sollas (1877–1965), also known as Hilda Sollas, was a British zoologist, palaeontologist and geologist, and lecturer at Newnham College, Cambridge. She was one of the first women to be taught geology at the University of Cambridge. She had wide interests, studying marine organisms, genetics, and palaeontology, and collaborated with Cambridge geneticist William Bateson. An alumna of Alexandra College, Dublin, she was recognized as a role model for women in higher education in Ireland and England.[1][2]

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