Rebecca Lancefield
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Rebecca Craighill Lancefield was an American microbiologist. She joined the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in New York in 1918, and was associated with that institute throughout her career
Lancefield in 1960
Maclyn McCarty
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Maclyn McCarty was an American geneticist, a research scientist described in 2005 as "the last surviving member of a Manhattan scientific team that overturned medical dogma in the 1940s and became the
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…member at Rockefeller University. She was promoted to full member and professor at Rockefeller in 1958. Lancefield was a long-time collaborator of Maclyn McCarty and a mentor of Emil Gotschlich, two recipients of the notable Lasker Prize. In 1943, she was the second woman to become president of the Society of…
Maclyn McCarty with Francis Crick and James D Watson