Wheldale, Muriel

Richmond, M. L. (2007). Muriel Wheldale Onslow and early biochemical genetics. Journal of the History of Biology 40 389-426. 

Scott-Moncrieff, R. (1981). The classical period in chemical genetics Recollections of Muriel Wheldale Onslow, Robert and Gertrude Robinson and J. B. S. Haldane. Notes and Records of the Royal Society, London 36 125-154. 

The research relationship between the married biochemists Dorothy Moyle (see Chap. 8) and Joseph Needham could better be described as autonomous rather than independent, as their research overlapped to a significant extent. We will see below that the descriptor autonomous also fits the research profile of Gertrude Walsh with Robert Robinson. Finally, Muriel Wheldale s collaboration with Huia Onslow (see Chap. 8) might be considered farther along the collaborative spectrum as semi-autonomous. Nevertheless, most active women spouse-chemists were part of a collaborative couple. 

Muriel Wheldale Onslow and the Rediscovery of Anthocyanin Function in Plants... 

F. 7.2 Muriel Wheldale Onslow in her home laboratory. Photograph courtesy of the Department of Bio-chemistry, Cambridge University. 

Fig. 7.3 Members of Frederick Gowland Hopkin s research group in 1917. Standing George Windfield, Ginsaburo Totani, Sydney W. Cole, F.G. Hcpkins. Seated H.M. Spiers, Elfrida Cornish, Harold Raistrick, Elsie Bulley, Dorothy Jordan-Lloyd, Muriel Wheldale [Onslow]. Photograph courtesy of the Department of Biochemistry, Cambridge University.

From Muriel Wheldale s The Anthocyanin Pigments of Plants (1916)... 

The photoprotective hypothesis for foliar anthocyanins was no less contentious in Muriel Wheldale s time. Kerner von Marilaum (1885, translated in 1897) was accredited with being one of the first, if not the first, to make suggestions as to the significance... 

I salute Muriel Wheldale Onslow, and look forward, as I am sure she would, to the future developments in this field. 

Creese, M.R.S. (2004). Onslow, Muriel Wheldale (1880-1932), plant biochemist. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, doi 10.1093/ref odnb/46433. 

Gortner, R.A. (1918). Book review. The anthocyanin pigments of plants, by Muriel Wheldale. Science, n.s. 47, 418-419. 

Rayner-Canham, M. Rayner-Canham, G. (2002). Muriel Wheldale Onslow (1880-1932) pioneer plant biochemist. The Biochemist, 24, 49-51. 

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