Margaret Augusta Jennings, Baroness Florey (2 December 1904,
Swanbourne – 14 November 1994), née Margaret Augusta Fremantle,
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, endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019)
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under Howard Florey
Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey (24 September 189821 February 1968) was an Australian pharmacologist and pathologist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Sir Ernst Chain and Sir Alexander Fleming for his role in ...
who worked on the clinical application of penicillin
Penicillins (P, PCN or PEN) are a group of β-lactam antibiotics originally obtained from ''Penicillium'' moulds, principally '' P. chrysogenum'' and '' P. rubens''. Most penicillins in clinical use are synthesised by P. chrysogenum using ...
.
Education and career
Jennings studied PPE at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford from 1924. She joined the University of Oxford
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, established =
, endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019)
, budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20)
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's Sir William Dunn School of Pathology
The Sir William Dunn School of Pathology is a department within the University of Oxford. Its research programme includes the cellular and molecular biology of pathogens, the immune response, cancer and cardiovascular disease. It teaches undergra ...
under Howard Florey
Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey (24 September 189821 February 1968) was an Australian pharmacologist and pathologist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Sir Ernst Chain and Sir Alexander Fleming for his role in ...
in 1936. By 1938, she was part of the team led by Florey investigating the production and applications of penicillin. Jennings undertook animal work as well as research on bacteriology. As part of testing, Jennings assayed the toxicity of penicillin extracts against white cells of the blood.
Personal life
Margaret married Denys Arthur Jennings in 1930, but the couple divorced in 1946.[ After 21 years, Jennings married ]Howard Florey
Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey (24 September 189821 February 1968) was an Australian pharmacologist and pathologist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Sir Ernst Chain and Sir Alexander Fleming for his role in ...
, her long-time colleague and penicillin researcher, in 1967 after the death of his first wife Mary Ethel Florey.
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1904 births
1994 deaths
Academics of the University of Oxford
British pathologists
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People from Aylesbury Vale
Spouses of life peers
20th-century British women scientists
Alumni of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford
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