Background
Clarke was born in Pontypridd, South Wales, and was educated at Howell"s School, Llandaff, from 1930 to 1937, before studying the Natural Sciences Tripos at Girton College, Cambridge, from 1937 to 1940.
professor of microbial biochemistry
Clarke was born in Pontypridd, South Wales, and was educated at Howell"s School, Llandaff, from 1930 to 1937, before studying the Natural Sciences Tripos at Girton College, Cambridge, from 1937 to 1940.
Howells School, Llandaff and Girton College Cambridge.
After graduating she took a post at the Armament Research Department of the Ministry of Supply in Swansea to work on explosives. She returned to biochemistry in 1944 when she joined the Wellcome Trust Research Laboratories at Beckenham, Kent. In 1951, she moved to work part-time at the National Collection of Type Cultures of bacteria in the Central Public Health Laboratory at Colindale, London.
Her final move was to the Department of Biochemistry at University College London, as Assistant Lecturer, being appointed Lecturer in 1956, Reader in 1966 and Professor of Microbial Biochemistry in 1974.
Her major field of research was bacterial enzymes production and metabolism.
Royal Society, Vice.
Married Michael Clarke in 1940.