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Marcella Boveri (* 7. Oktober 1863 in Boston; † 24. Oktober 1950 in Trenton, New Jersey), geboren als Marcella Imelda O’Grady, war eine US-amerikanische Biologin. Sie heiratete den deutschen Biologen Theodor Boveri, ihre Tochter Margret Boveri zählt zu den bekanntesten deutschen Nachkriegsjournalistinnen. Marcella O’Grady war ...
Nature Reviews Genetics - Theodor Boveri is best remembered for his chromosome theory of heredity. However, the contributions that he and his wife, Marcella O'Grady Boveri, made to the...
- Helga Satzinger
- 2008
2. Aug. 2023 · Marcella O'Grady Boveri. Gelehrte des Monats Juli 2020. * 7. Oktober 1863 in Boston † 24. Oktober 1950 in Trenton, New Jersey. 1885 Abschluss in Biologie am MIT. 1889 Dozentin am Vassar College. 1893 Berufung zur Professorin am Vassar College. 1896 Forschungsreise nach Würzburg. 1926 Rückkehr in die USA.
Marcella Boveri (née O'Grady; October 7, 1863 – October 24, 1950) was an American biologist. She was married to the German biologist Theodor Boveri (1862–1915). Their daughter Margret Boveri (1900–1975) became one of the best-known post-war German journalists.
21. Juli 2022 · For July’s Scholar of the Month, we are shining the spotlight on Marcella O’Grady. As the first woman to ever graduate with a concentration in biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), O’Grady was also one of the first women to begin an academic career in biology.
Born into a Boston Irish family, Marcella Imelda O'Grady was the first woman graduate in biology from MIT (1885) where she came under the influence of two recent PhD graduates of Johns Hopkins University, William Townsend Sedgwick and Edmund Beecher Wilson.
Towards the end of Theodor Boveri’s life, he and his wife, Marcella O’Grady Boveri, started a new experimental system using the lens and cornea epithelium of the rabbit to investigate the cellular causes of cancer.
