Background
Minnie Johnson was born on November 14, 1909.
Minnie Johnson was born on November 14, 1909.
She attended Waverley Road Secondary School in Birmingham, where she completed certificates in chemistry, zoology, botany, and history.
She earned her Bachelor of Science and Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Birmingham in 1930 and 1932, respectively. Foreign studying respiration control in invertebrates. In 1932, she was appointed as a lecturer in the Zoology Department at her alma mater, and during World World War II was promoted to acting head
The couple began a journal called New Biology in 1945, aimed at young people and was highly popular, selling hundreds of thousands of copies in its 31-year run.
Abercrombie became an authority on medical education later in life, and also published several books