Margaret Jennings (scientist)

Margaret Augusta Jennings, Baroness Florey (2 December 1904, Swanbourne – 14 November 1994), née Margaret Augusta Fremantle,[1] was a British scientist who was part of the group at the University of Oxford under Howard Florey who worked on the clinical application of penicillin.

The Right Honourable

The Lady Florey
Born
Margaret Augusta Fremantle

2 December 1904
Swanbourne, England
Died14 November 1994
Known forpenicillin research
Spouses

Education and career

Jennings read Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, from 1924.[2] She joined the University of Oxford's Sir William Dunn School of Pathology under Howard Florey in 1936.[3] By 1938, she was part of the team led by Florey investigating the production and applications of penicillin. Jennings undertook animal work as well as research on bacteriology.[4] As part of testing, Jennings assayed the toxicity of penicillin extracts against white cells of the blood.[5]

Personal life

Margaret married Denys Arthur Jennings in 1930, but the couple divorced in 1946.[1] After 21 years, Jennings married Howard Florey, her long-time colleague and penicillin researcher, in 1967 after the death of his first wife Mary Ethel Florey.[6]

References
  1. Ken Harris, The Swanbourne Fremantles
  2. "Prominent alumni". Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
  3. Abraham, A.P. (November 1971). "Howard Walter Florey. Baron Florey of Adelaide and Marston. 1898-1968". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 17: 265. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1971.0011. JSTOR 769709. PMID 11615426. S2CID 29766722.
  4. Bud, Robert (May 2013). "Discoverers and developers of penicillin (act. 1928–1950)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/97279. Retrieved 15 October 2013. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  5. Harris 1999, pp. 243–252.
  6. Harris 1999, p. 249.


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