Marilyn Gist Farquhar (born before 1940) is a pathologist and cellular biologist with a doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley.[1] She has won the E. B. Wilson Medal and the FASEB Excellence in Science Award. She worked at Yale University from 1973 to 1990.[2] She was married to Nobel Laureate George Emil Palade from 1970 to his death.[3]