Susan Finnegan FLS | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1903 |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge (PhD) |
| Known for | Work on acari, spiders and scorpions |
| Spouse | Walter Campbell Smith (m. 1936) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Zoology |
| Institutions | British Museum (Natural History) |
| Thesis | Report on the Brachyura collected by the S.Y. 'St George' on the east and west coasts of Central America (PhD) (1930) |
Susan Finnegan (b. 1903) was a British zoologist, who specialised in the study of mites and ticks. She was the first woman appointed to a scientific post at the Natural History Museum, London, in 1927, and was the first woman to describe and name a new genus of scorpion, Apistobuthus. Two species of scorpion have been named in her honour.[1] Finnegan was required to resign her post at the Natural History Museum in 1936, in order to marry her fellow museum worker Walter Campbell Smith.[2][3]