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==Education and career== ==Education and career==
Jennings studied PPE at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford from 1924.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.lmh.ox.ac.uk/alumni/prominent-alumni |title=Prominent alumni |author=<!--Not stated--> |date= |website=Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford |access-date=30 November 2020}}</ref> She joined the ]'s ] under ] in 1936.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Abraham|first=A.P.|title=Howard Walter Florey. Baron Florey of Adelaide and Marston. 1898-1968.|journal=Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society|date=November 1971|volume=17|page=265|doi=10.1098/rsbm.1971.0011|pmid=11615426|jstor=769709|s2cid=29766722}}</ref> By 1938, she was part of the team led by Florey investigating the production and applications of penicillin. Jennings undertook animal work as well as research on bacteriology.<ref>{{cite web|last=Bud|first=Robert|title=Discoverers and developers of penicillin (act. 1928–1950)|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/theme/97279|work=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|publisher=Oxford University Press|accessdate=15 October 2013|date=May 2013}}</ref> As part of testing, Jennings assayed the toxicity of penicillin extracts against white cells of the blood.{{sfn|Harris|1999|pages=243-252}} Jennings studied PPE at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford from 1924.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.lmh.ox.ac.uk/alumni/prominent-alumni |title=Prominent alumni |author=<!--Not stated--> |date= |website=Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford |access-date=30 November 2020}}</ref> She joined the ]'s ] under ] in 1936.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Abraham|first=A.P.|title=Howard Walter Florey. Baron Florey of Adelaide and Marston. 1898-1968.|journal=Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society|date=November 1971|volume=17|page=265|doi=10.1098/rsbm.1971.0011|pmid=11615426|jstor=769709|s2cid=29766722}}</ref> By 1938, she was part of the team led by Florey investigating the production and applications of penicillin. Jennings undertook animal work as well as research on bacteriology.<ref>{{cite web|last=Bud|first=Robert|title=Discoverers and developers of penicillin (act. 1928–1950)|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/theme/97279|work=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|publisher=Oxford University Press|access-date=15 October 2013|date=May 2013}}</ref> As part of testing, Jennings assayed the toxicity of penicillin extracts against white cells of the blood.{{sfn|Harris|1999|pages=243-252}}


==Personal life== ==Personal life==
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* {{cite journal |last=Harris |first=Henry |title=Howard Florey and the Development of Penicillin |journal=Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London |date=May 1999 |volume=53 |issue=2 |publisher=The Royal Society |doi=10.1098/rsnr.1999.0078 |ref=harv |jstor=532209 |pages=243–252|doi-access=free }} * {{cite journal |last=Harris |first=Henry |title=Howard Florey and the Development of Penicillin |journal=Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London |date=May 1999 |volume=53 |issue=2 |publisher=The Royal Society |doi=10.1098/rsnr.1999.0078 |jstor=532209 |pages=243–252|doi-access=free }}


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British scientist
Margaret Augusta Jennings
BornMargaret Augusta Fremantle
2 December 1904
Swanbourne
Died14 November 1994
Known forpenicillin research
Spouse(s)1. Denys Arthur Jennings, 2. Howard Florey
Parents
  • Thomas Fremantle, 3rd Baron Cottesloe (father)
  • Florence Annie Alexandra Tapling (mother)

Margaret Augusta Jennings (2 December 1904, Swanbourne – 14 November 1994), née Margaret Augusta Fremantle, was a British scientist who was part of the group at the University of Oxford under Howard Florey who worked on the clinical application of penicillin.

Education and career

Jennings studied PPE at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford from 1924. She joined the University of Oxford's Sir William Dunn School of Pathology under Howard Florey in 1936. By 1938, she was part of the team led by Florey investigating the production and applications of penicillin. Jennings undertook animal work as well as research on bacteriology. As part of testing, Jennings assayed the toxicity of penicillin extracts against white cells of the blood.

Personal life

Margaret married Denys Arthur Jennings in 1930, but the couple divorced in 1946. After 21 years, Jennings married Howard Florey, her long-time colleague and penicillin researcher, in 1967 after the death of his first wife Mary Ethel Florey.

References

  1. ^ Ken Harris, The Swanbourne Fremantles
  2. "Prominent alumni". Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
  3. Abraham, A.P. (November 1971). "Howard Walter Florey. Baron Florey of Adelaide and Marston. 1898-1968". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 17: 265. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1971.0011. JSTOR 769709. PMID 11615426. S2CID 29766722.
  4. Bud, Robert (May 2013). "Discoverers and developers of penicillin (act. 1928–1950)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 15 October 2013.
  5. Harris 1999, pp. 243–252.
  6. Harris 1999, p. 249.


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