Ann Bishop

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Ann Bishop (born December 19, 1899 in Manchester , † May 7, 1990 in Sherlock Close ) was a British biologist and a member of the Royal Society .

Life

Ann Bishop was born in 1899 as the first of two children to cabinet maker and cotton manufacturer James Kimberly Bishop and Ellen Bishop, née Ginger. She had a brother who was 13 years her junior. She studied botany, zoology and chemistry at Manchester University from 1918 and completed her Bachelor of Science in 1921 and her Master of Science in 1922 . She received the Dalton Prize for Natural History from the university . Bishop specialized in protozoology and parasitology . While she began her research under Sydney Hickson with studies on flagellated parasites , including the pathogen of histomoniasis in turkeys, on which she received her doctorate in 1932, she then devoted herself to research on parasitic amoeba and amoeba dysentery , on which she did her doctorate in 1941 at Girton College has been. However, women at the time only received the title, not the full degree. Bishop spent there at the Molteno Institute for the Biology of Parasites, her further professional career with research on parasites , in particular on plasmodia.

Bishop was the first to describe the parasite Pseudotrichomonas keilini and, among other things, worked with Aedes aegypti , the vector of the malaria pathogen Plasmodium . Bishop was a founder of the British Society for Parasitology and a member of the World Health Organization's Malaria Committee . Because of her later research on the causative agent of malaria and its resistance to drugs, she was admitted to the Royal Society in 1959. Bishop died of pneumonia at the age of 90. In her obituary in The Guardian on May 19, 1990, she was referred to as the "Girtonian of Girtonians".

Selected publications

  • Ann Bishop: Some observations upon Spirostomum ambiguum (Ehrenberg) . (PDF) In: Quarterly Journal of the Microscopical Society . 67, 1923, pp. 391-434.
  • Ann Bishop: The cytoplasmic structures of Spirostomum ambiguum (Ehrenberg) . (PDF) In: Quarterly Journal of the Microscopical Society . 71, 1927, pp. 147-172.
  • PP Laidlaw, Clifford Dobell, Ann Bishop: Further experiments on the action of emetine in cultures of Entamoeba histolytica . In: Parasitology . 20, No. 2, 1928, pp. 207-220. doi : 10.1017 / S0031182000011604 .
  • Ann Bishop, Clifford Dobell: Researches on the intestinal protozoa of monkeys and man. III: The action of emetine on natural amoebic infections in Macaques . In: Parasitology . 21, No. 4, 1929, pp. 446-468. doi : 10.1017 / S0031182000029334 .
  • Ann Bishop: Experiments on the action of emetine in cultures of Entamoeba coli . In: Parasitology . 21, No. 4, 1929, pp. 481-486. doi : 10.1017 / S003118200002936X .
  • Ann Bishop: The morphology and division of Trichomonas . In: Parasitology . 23, No. 2, 1931, pp. 129-156. doi : 10.1017 / S0031182000013524 .
  • Ann Bishop: Histomonas meleagridis in domestic fowls ( Gallus gallus ). Cultivation and experimental infection . In: Parasitology . 30, No. 2, 1938, pp. 181-194. doi : 10.1017 / S0031182000025749 .
  • Ann Bishop: Chemotherapy and avian malaria . In: Parasitology . 34, No. 1, 1942, pp. 1-54. doi : 10.1017 / S0031182000015985 .
  • Ann Bishop, Barbara M. Gilchrist: Experiments upon the feeding of Aëdes aegypti through animal membranes with a view to applying this method to the chemotherapy of malaria . In: Parasitology . 37, No. 1-2, 1946. doi : 10.1017 / S0031182000013202 .
  • Ann Bishop, Betty Birkett: Acquired resistance to paludrine in Plasmodium gallinaceum . In: Nature . 159, No. 4052, 1947, p. 884. doi : 10.1038 / 159884a0 .
  • Ann Bishop, Betty Birkett: Drug-resistance in Plasmodium gallinaceum , and the persistence of paludrine-resistance after mosquito transmission . In: Parasitology . 39, No. 1-2, 1948, pp. 125-137. doi : 10.1017 / S0031182000083657 .
  • Ann Bishop, Elspeth W. McConnachie: Resistance to sulphadiazine and 'paludrine' in the malaria parasite of the fowl (p. Gallinaceum) . In: Nature . 162, No. 4118, 1948, pp. 541-543. doi : 10.1038 / 162541a0 .
  • Ann Bishop, Elspeth W. McConnachie: Sulphadiazine-resistance in Plasmodium gallinaceum and its relation to other antimalarial compounds . In: Parasitology . 40, No. 1-2, 1950, pp. 163-174. doi : 10.1017 / S0031182000017996 .
  • Ann Bishop: Problems concerned with gametogenesis in Haemosporidiidea, with particular reference to the genus Plasmodium . In: Parasitology . 45, No. 1-2, 1955, pp 163-185. doi : 10.1017 / S0031182000027542 .
  • Ann Bishop, Elspeth W. McConnachie: A study of the factors affecting the emergence of the gametocytes of Plasmodium gallinaceum from the erythrocytes and the exflagellation of the male gametocytes . In: Parasitology . 46, No. 1-2, 1956, pp. 192-215. doi : 10.1017 / S0031182000026433 .
  • Ann Bishop: Drug resistance in protozoa . In: Biological Reviews . 34, No. 4, 1959, pp. 334-500. doi : 10.1111 / j.1469-185X.1959.tb01317.x .

literature

  • Bishop, Ann (April 20, 1961), "Resistance to drugs by the malaria parasite", New Scientist (1961), Vol. 231, pp. 118-120.
  • Past Presidents , British Society for Parasitology, 2012.
  • Working Women's Summer School , Girton College Archive (Janus) (University of Cambridge).
  • Goodwin, LG; Vickerman, K. (1992), "Ann Bishop," Biographical Memoirs of the Fellows of the Royal Society 38: 28-39, doi : 10.1098 / rsbm.1992.0002 .
  • Goodwin, LG (2004), "Ann Bishop", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press), doi : 10.1093 / ref: odnb / 40061 .
  • Haines, Catherine MC (2001), International Women in Science: A Biographical Dictionary to 1950, ABC-CLIO, pp. 33-34, ISBN 9781576070901 .
  • Ogilvie, M. (2000), The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: Pioneering Lives From Ancient Times to the Mid-20th Century, Volume 1 1, Taylor & Francis US, pp. 129-130, ISBN 9780415920384 .
  • Ranford-Cartwright, Lisa (Nov. 2006), Society News, Parasitology News: The Newsletter of the British Society for Parasitology.
  • "Dr Ann Bishop", The Times , May 22, 1990.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary of Dr Ann Bishop Girton: Food and protozoa , The Guardian, May 19, 1990.
personal data
SURNAME Bishop, Ann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British biologist and member of the Royal Society
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Manchester
DATE OF DEATH May 7, 1990
Place of death Sherlock Close