Mary C. Pangborn (August 13, 1907 – February 20, 2003) was an American scientist and writer of science fiction.

Youth

Born in Brooklyn, Pangborn attended the Friends School. Science fiction author Edgar Pangborn was her younger brother.

She graduated from high school at age 14, and entered Smith College a year later.

Scientific work

At Smith, Pangborn received the Frances A. Hause prize for excellence in chemistry and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.[1] She graduated with a PhD from Yale in 1931.[2][3] In 1942, she discovered the biologically important lipid cardiolipin.[4]

Fiction

Pangborn published at least one poem[5] and, later in life, a number of pieces of short fiction in noted anthologies and in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction.

Her only novel, Friar Bacon's Head, remained unpublished as of her death.[6]

References

  1. ^ "Local College Student Honored". The Springfield Daily Republican. March 21, 1927. p. 5. Retrieved September 24, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ Mary C. Pangborn (1931). Chemical investigations of the lipoids of the timothy bacillus (Thesis).
  3. ^ "Recent alumni deaths". Yale Alumni Magazine. September–October 2011. Retrieved February 25, 2025.
  4. ^ Pangborn M. (1942). "Isolation and purification of a serologically active phospholipid from beef heart". J. Biol. Chem. 143: 247–256. doi:10.1016/S0021-9258(18)72683-5.
  5. ^ "Nocturne". The Atlantic. March 1943. Retrieved February 25, 2025.
  6. ^ Davis Nicoll, James (June 18, 2018). "Fighting Erasure: Women SF Writers of the 1970s, Part VIII". Tor.com. Retrieved June 19, 2018.


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