Jane Ingham | |
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 Ingham (left) with Albert Ingham (right) in 1966 | |
| Born | Rose Marie Tupper‑Carey 15 August 1897 Leeds, England |
| Died | 10 September 1982 (aged 85) Cambridge, England |
| Alma mater | University of Leeds (1928: MSc) |
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| Children | 2 |
| Relatives | Michael Sadleir (brother-in-law) |
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| Thesis | Geotropism or Gravity and Growth (1928) |
| Academic advisors | Joseph Hubert Priestley |
Rose Marie "Jane" Ingham (née Tupper‑Carey /ˌtˈʌpə ˈkɛəri/ ; 15 August 1897 – 10 September 1982) was an English botanist and scientific translator. She was appointed research assistant to Joseph Hubert Priestley in the Botany Department at the University of Leeds, and together, they were the first to separate cell walls from the root tip of broad beans. They analysed these cell walls and concluded that they contained protein. She carried out experiments on the cork layer of trees to study how cells function under a change of orientation and found profound differences in cell division and elongation in the epidermal layer of plants.
At Leeds, Ingham was appointed sub-warden of Weetwood Hall, and honorary secretary of the British-Italian League. In 1930, she joined the Imperial Bureau of Plant and Crop Genetics at the School of Agriculture in Cambridge, England, as a scientific officer and translator. The bureau was responsible for publishing a series of abstract journals on various aspects of crop breeding and genetics. In 1932, she married Albert Ingham, then a fellow and director of studies at King's College, Cambridge. Ingham spent the war years in Princeton, New Jersey, with her two sons, not wishing to return to England after travelling to the US just before the outbreak of World War II. In the last years of her life, she and her husband travelled extensively, and in 1982, she died at Cambridge.