Janet Vaughan

Dame Janet Maria Vaughan DBE, FRS^[1] (18 October 1899 – 9 January 1993) was a British physiologist.^[2]^[3]

Born in Clifton, Bristol, she was the daughter of William Wyamar Vaughan, a cousin of Virginia Woolf and later headmaster of Rugby.

Educated at home, and later at North Foreland Lodge and Somerville College, Oxford, where she studied under Charles Sherrington and JBS Haldane.

From 1945 until her retirement in 1967, she was Principal of Somerville College. She was made DBE in 1957, and elected FRS in 1979.^[1] She was Principal while Margaret Roberts studied there - a student who would later become British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

Personal life

She married Denis Gourley, of the Wayfarers' Travel Agency, in 1930; they had two daughters.

References

^ ^a ^b Owen, M. (1995). "Dame Janet Maria Vaughan, D. B. E. 18 October 1899-9 January 1993". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 41: 482–426. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1995.0029. edit
^ Evelyn Irons, Obituary: Dame Janet Vaughan, The Independent, 12 January 1993.
^ The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/42277. edit

External links

Royal College of Physicians profile of Dame Janet Vaughan contains a detailed account of her life, based in part on her 1993 Independent obituary
Red Gold: Inovators & Pioneers — Jane Vaughan, PBS

Persondata
Name	Vaughan, Janet Maria
Alternative names	Gourley, Janet Maria
Short description	British physiologist and radiobiologist
Date of birth	18 October 1899
Place of birth	Clifton, Bristol, England, UK
Date of death	9 January 1993
Place of death