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She was born on 31 March 1880 in Birmingham, England.
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First published in 1929 as a third edition of a 1920 original, this book aims to bridge the gap between organic chemistry and plant physiology. Onslow also discusses plant metabolism, chlorophyll and the colloidal state. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the history of botany.
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She was born on 31 March 1880 in Birmingham, England.
She attended the King Edward VI High School in Birmingham and then matriculated at Newnham College, Cambridge in 1900.
At Cambridge she majored in botany. In 1903 she joined William Bateson"s genetics lab at Cambridge where she began her study of the inheritance of petal color in Antirrhinum (snapdragons). This work culminated in the 1916 publication of her first book, The Anthocyanin Pigments of Plants.
In 1914 Onslow joined the biochemistry lab of Frederick Gowland Hopkins, where she pursued the biochemical aspects of petal color, whose genetics she had elucidated at Bateson"s laboratory
In combining genetics and biochemistry she became one of the first biochemical geneticists and paved the way for the later successes of such seminal investigators as Edward Tatum and George Beadle. In 1919 Onslow married biochemist Victor Alexander Herbert Huia Onslow, second son of the 4th Earl of Onslow.
Victor Onslow was paraplegic and died in 1922. In 1926 she was one of the first women appointed as a lecturer at Cambridge.
Muriel Onslow died on 19 May 1932.
In 2010 the Royal Institution of Great Britain staged a play, entitled "Blooming Snapdragons," about four early-20th-century women biochemists, one of whom was Muriel Onslow.
(First published in 1929 as a third edition of a 1920 orig...)
( This work has been selected by scholars as being cultur...)
(This book is intended primarily for students of Botany. S...)