Rose Bracher

Rose Bracher (* 1894 in Salisbury ; † July 15, 1941 in Bristol ) was a British biologist and botanist . She was the first woman to be elected to the Senate of an English university.

Career

After leaving school, Rose Bracher took up studies at the University of Bristol , which she finished with a degree in botany in 1917. She then worked in research for a year and then accepted a teaching position at the London School of Medicine for Women in 1918. In 1920 she was awarded a scholarship to study mycology for a year at the University of Wisconsin . Bracher then returned to London to continue teaching at East London College . In 1924 she switched to research at the University of Bristol, where she took on an assistant position in the botany department in 1926 and, from 1929, a lecturer position. In 1927 she was awarded a doctorate in natural sciences.

Act

Rose Bracher researched in particular the physiology of the unicellular flagellates Euglena . She also examined the fluctuations in the occurrence of Euglena on the banks of the River Avon in Bristol. Several of her work has been published in the Proceedings of the Linnean Society . She is the author of two textbooks, Field Studies in Ecology and Ecology in Town and Classroom , in which she also details her research activities and teaching methods.

Appreciations

In 1938, Rose Bracher was appointed a member of the Linnean Society . The University of Bristol awarded her the title of Senior Lecturer in 1940 . Her special merits for the university were recognized. In 1941 she was elected to the University Senate as the first woman in England. The Rose Bracher Memorial Prize , which the University of Bristol awards for the best degree in a biological or biochemical discipline, is named after her .

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• Renate Strohmeyer: Lexicon of the natural scientists and women of Europe . Verlag Harri Deutsch 1998, ISBN 3-8171-1567-9 , p. 53.