Eva Sansome | |
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| Born | 1906  |
| Died | 2001 (aged 94–95) |
| Occupation | University teacher |
| Spouse(s) | F. W. Sansome |
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Eva Sansome, nee Richardson (1906-2001) was a British mycologist. [1]
Eva Sansome | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1906 |
| Died | 2001 (aged 94–95) |
| Occupation | University teacher |
| Spouse(s) | F. W. Sansome |
| Awards |
|
Eva Sansome, nee Richardson (1906-2001) was a British mycologist. [1]
Eva Richardson was born on 9 September 1906, possibly in New Zealand. She gained a DSc. from Manchester University, and in 1928 was appointed a fellow of the Linnean Society. In 1929 she married fellow botanist F. W. Sansome. [2] [3]
Sansome lectured in horticulture at the University of Manchester and the University of Ghana. [2]
During the war she collaborated with Alexander Hollaender, Milislav Demerec and a young Esther M. Zimmer at the United States Public Health Service (Bethesda, Maryland), publishing in the very early field of x-ray- and UV-induced mutations. [4] In the late 1950s she was registered at University College Ibadan, though on placement to Long Island Biological Laboratories. [5] She researched meiosis in the oogonium. She studied the antheridium of Pythium debaryanum , [2] showing in a 1963 paper that the mycelium of Pythium debaryanum was diploid, rather than (as previously believed) haploid. Subsequent work established that both oospores and myceliuum are diploid in several Peronosporales genera. [6]
A Reader in the Department of Botany at Ahmadu Bello University in the mid-1960s, she and her husband supported eliminating the Igbo from Northern Nigeria at the time of the 1966 anti-Igbo pogrom. [7] She was awarded an OBE in the 1968 New Year Honours.[ citation needed ]
She collaborated with Clive Brasier. [8] After her husband's death in 1981, Sansome moved to live with her son's family in Warwickshire. After a series of strokes, she died on 11 February 2001. [1]
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