Background
SANGER, Ruth was born on June 6, 1918 in Southport, Queensland. Daughter of Hubert Sanger and Katharine M. Ross (Cameron).
SANGER, Ruth was born on June 6, 1918 in Southport, Queensland. Daughter of Hubert Sanger and Katharine M. Ross (Cameron).
She was educated at Abbotsleigh School in Sydney, and graduated from Sydney University in 1938.
They were co-authors many papers after 1948, and co-wrote six editions of a leading work on blood groups, Blood Groups in Manitoba, known as "Race and Sanger", which were published between 1950 and 1975. Her father became headmaster of Armidale School in New South Wales. After working as a haematologist for the Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service in Australia, she moved to England in 1946 to work with Race, and received a doctorate from the University of London in 1949 on the variety of blood group systems
She returned to Australia after receiving her doctorate, but then moved permanently to the United Kingdom in 1950.
The first edition of Blood Groups in Manitoba was published in August 1950, based on the systematic analysis of blood groups in her Doctor of Philosophy thesis. In 1973, she followed Race as director of the Medical Research Council"s Blood Group Unit at the Lister Institute in London.
She retired in 1983. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (Federal Reserve System) in 1972 (Race had become an Federal Reserve System in 1952).
Sanger died in Putney in 2001. They had no children.
Of scientific staff, Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service, Sydney 1941-1946, Medical Research Council Blood Group Unit, Lister Institute, London 83.
Married Robert Russell Race, C.B.E., F Royal College of Physicians., Fellow of the Royal Society in 1956 (died.
