Stephenson

Stephenson was educated by a governess until the age of 12, at which point she received a scholarship to attend the Berkhampsted High School for Girls. It was her mother who insisted that Stephenson obtain a university education, and that Newnham was the appropriate place. She attended Newnham from 1903 until 1906, taking the Part I Natural Sciences Tripos in chemistry, physiology, and zoology. 

After leaving Newnham, she would have liked to have studied medicine but lacking the financial resources, she took teaching positions in domestic and household science instead for the next 5 years, including at King s College for Women, in Kensington 

The Cookery Side of the Domestic Science staff has a distinct acquisition in Miss Marjory Stevenson [sic] from the Gloucester School of Domestic Science. She has taken the Natural Science tripos (chief subject chemistry) and also a first class Diploma in Cookery a combination of certificates which seems at the present moment to have been achieved only by herself. Unfortunately, owing to present limitations, a good deal of her King s College work will be at the Clapham Housewifery School, though with our students only she will not be able to spend much time in our own small Kitchen Laboratory.50 

It was Hopkins who encouraged Stephenson to develop her own interests, and she chose chemical microbiology. She explained the reasons for her choice in the preface of her book, Bacterial Metabolism, first published in 1929  

Perhaps bacteria may tentatively be regarded as biochemical experimenters owing to their relatively small size and rapid growth variations must arise very much more frequently than in more differentiated forms of life, and they can in addition afford to occupy more precarious positions in natural economy than larger organisms with more exacting requirements.58 

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Cavanagh R R, King D S, Stephenson J C and Heinz T F 1993 Dynamios of nonthermal reaotions—femtoseoond surfaoe ohemistry J. Phys. Chem. 97 786... 

Cavanagh R R, Fleilweil E J and Stephenson J C 1994 Time-resolved measurements of energy-transfer at surfaces Surf. Sc/. 300 643-55... 

Richter L T, Petralli-Mallow T P and Stephenson J C 1998 Vibrationally resolved sum-frequency generation with broad-bandwidth infrared pulses Opt Lett. 23 1594-6... 

Fleiiweii E J, Casassa M P, Cavanagh R R and Stephenson J C 1989 Picosecond vibrationai energy transfer studies of surface adsorbates Ann. Rev. Rhys. Chem. 40 143-71... 

Abel E W, Coston T P J, Orrell K G, Sik V and Stephenson D 1986 Two-dimensional NMR exohange speotrosoopy. Quantitative treatment of multisite exohanging systems J. Magn. Reson. 70 34-53... 

Stephenson J C and Moore C B 1972 Temperature dependence of nearly resonant vibration-vibration energy transfer in COj mixtures J. Chem. Phys. 56 1295-308... 

Beokerle J D, Casassa M P, Cavanagh R R, Heilweil E J and Stephenson J C 1990 Ultrafast infrared response of adsorbates on metal surfaoes vibrational lifetime of CO/Pt(111) Phys. Rev. Lett. 64 2090-3... 

Heilweil E J, Cavanagh R R and Stephenson J C 1988 CO (v= 1) population lifetimes of metal-oarbonyl oluster oompounds in dilute CHCI3 solution J. Chem. Phys. 89 230-9... 

Stephenson G 1973. Mathematical Methods for Science Students. London, Longman. 

Physical facilities help, but do not per se make a research institute. It is the people who work there and their contributions and devoted hard work that is most important. We are nearing a quarter of a century since the Hydrocarbon Research Institute was started at USC. At the beginning in 1977, Sid Benson and I shared the scientific directorship of the Institute and Jerry Segal carried out the administrative responsibilities as executive director. When we moved into our own building in 1979, Bill Stephenson, a physical-organic chemist and a former colleague of mine in Cleveland who subsequently joined us at... 

Z. Elder and G. R. Stephenson, 1987 British Crop Protection Conference—Weeds, Vol. 3, Brit. Crop Protect. Conf, Croydon, U.K., 1987, p. 1105. 

R. L. Stephenson, ed.. Direct Reduced Iron—Technology and Economics of Production and Use, ISS/AIME, Warrendale, Pa, 1980. 

J. R. Merriman, M. J. Stephenson, B. E. Kmak, md D. K. Little, International Symposium on Management of Gaseous Wastesfrom Nuclear Fadlities, IAEA-SM-245 /53, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Vienna, Austria, 1980. 

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