Global InformationIgerna Sollas information
Igerna Sollas | |
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| Born | Igerna Brünhilda Johnson Sollas 16 March 1877 Dawlish, Devon, England |
| Died | November 1965 (aged 88) |
| Education | Alexandra College |
| Alma mater | Newnham College, Cambridge |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Zoology, Geology |
| Institutions | Newnham College, Cambridge |
Igerna Brünhilda Johnson Sollas (1877–1965), also known as Hilda Sollas, was a British zoologist, palaeontologist and geologist, and lecturer at Newnham College, Cambridge. She was one of the first women to be taught geology at the University of Cambridge. She had wide interests, studying marine organisms, genetics, and palaeontology, and collaborated with Cambridge geneticist William Bateson. An alumna of Alexandra College, Dublin, she was recognized as a role model for women in higher education in Ireland and England.[1][2]
- ^ Parkes, Susan M. (2014). "Intellectual Women: Irish Women at Cambridge,1875-1904". In Walsh, Brendan (ed.). Knowing Their Place: The Intellectual Life of Women in the 19th Century. History Press Limited. pp. 136–. ISBN 978-0-7524-9871-3.
- ^ Cynthia V. Burek (2007). "The role of women in geological higher education - Bedford College, London (Catherine Raisin) and Newnham College, Cambridge, UK". In Cynthia V. Burek; Bettie Higgs (eds.). The Role of Women in the History of Geology. Vol. 281. Geological Society of London. pp. 18–. doi:10.1144/SP281.2. ISBN 978-1-86239-227-4. S2CID 128490056.
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