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Helen Spurway

Helen Spurway (12 June 1915 – 15 February 1978) was a British-Indian biologist and the second wife of J. B. S. Haldane; thus also sometimes known as Helen Spurway-Haldane. She emigrated to India in 1957 along with him, both taking up Indian citizenship in 1961, and conducted research in field biology with Krishna Dronamraju, Suresh Jayakar, and others.