Mary C. Pangborn
Mary C. Pangborn | |
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.png) In the Springfield Daily Republican, March 21, 1927 | |
| Born | August 13, 1907 Brooklyn, New York, US |
| Died | February 20, 2003 (aged 95) |
| Education | Smith College, Yale University |
| Occupation(s) | Scientist, writer |
| Relatives | Edgar Pangborn (brother) |
Mary C. Pangborn (August 13, 1907 – February 20, 2003) was an American scientist and writer of science fiction.
Youth
[edit]Born in Brooklyn, Pangborn attended the Friends School. Science fiction author Edgar Pangborn was her younger brother.
She graduated from high school at age 14, and entered Smith College a year later.
Scientific work
[edit]At Smith, Pangborn received the Frances A. Hause prize for excellence in chemistry and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.[1] She graduated with a PhD from Yale in 1931.[2][3] In 1942, she discovered the biologically important lipid cardiolipin.[4]
Fiction
[edit]Pangborn published at least one poem[5] and, later in life, a number of pieces of short fiction in noted anthologies and in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction.
Her only novel, Friar Bacon's Head, remained unpublished as of her death.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ "Local College Student Honored". The Springfield Daily Republican. March 21, 1927. p. 5. Retrieved September 24, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Mary C. Pangborn (1931). Chemical investigations of the lipoids of the timothy bacillus (Thesis).
- ^ "Recent alumni deaths". Yale Alumni Magazine. September–October 2011. Retrieved February 25, 2025.
- ^ Pangborn M. (1942). "Isolation and purification of a serologically active phospholipid from beef heart". J. Biol. Chem. 143: 247–256. doi:10.1016/S0021-9258(18)72683-5.
- ^ "Nocturne". The Atlantic. March 1943. Retrieved February 25, 2025.
- ^ Davis Nicoll, James (June 18, 2018). "Fighting Erasure: Women SF Writers of the 1970s, Part VIII". Tor.com. Retrieved June 19, 2018.
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