Marguerite Narbel

Marguerite Narbel (born February 7, 1918 in Lausanne , † June 2, 2010 in Lutry ; resident in Vuarrens ) was a Swiss cell geneticist and politician ( LPS ). In 1981 she became the first woman President of the Grand Council of Vaud .

Narbel was the daughter of the chief physician Paul-Louis Narbel (1876-1920). She completed her studies in natural sciences in 1941 with a licentiate . In 1946 she completed her doctorate in zoology at the University of Lausanne . Narbel worked in Lausanne and Zurich as a biologist on animals in the field of cell genetic research.

Narbel taught at the Universities of Lausanne and Geneva . In 1969 she founded the Vaud Cantonal School for Laboratory Assistants in Lausanne, which she directed until her retirement.

In 1962, the first women became members of the Vaudois Grand Council. Narbel became a member of parliament for the city of Lausanne eight years later. From May 1981 to May 1982 Marguerite Narbel was President of the Grand Council. Four years later she resigned as a Liberal MP. She was a member of the federal commissions for water protection (1980) and the national parks.

From 1956 to 1958 Narbel was President of the Association vaudoise des femmes universitaires and from 1964 to 1968 Vice President of the Swiss Association of Women Academics. She was a member of the Soroptimists .

Narbel was married to the doctor Jean-René Hofstetter. The marriage remained childless and was divorced. She took great care of her nine sponsored children . She was artistically gifted but showed no one her watercolors .

Publications

• L'origine de la parthénogénèse.
• Les altérations de la méi͏̈ose chez les animaux parthénogénétiques.

Web links

• Gilbert Marion: Marguerite Narbel. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Swiss elites in the 20th century: Narbel, Marguerite (1918–) (French)

Footnotes

1. ↑ Narbel, Paul.
2. ^ En souvenir de ... Marguerite Narbel, la première première Vaudoise a tiré sa révérence. (French), accessed August 11, 2020