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DOROTHY JORDAN LLOYD was born in 1889, the daughter and grand-daughter of two prominent surgeons in Birmingham. It would appear natural that her early studies at Newnham College were in zoology, later physiological and then physico-chemical studies of muscle. During the First World War, her scientific pursuits were diversified, and under the auspices of the Medical Research Committee she was one of a team which studied substitutes for components of culture media for bacteria which were then in short supply. Then her brilliant short paper on the causes and prevention of ropiness in bread was most appropriate to war-time, and indicated the versatility of her mind. Under the stimulating influences of Gowland Hopkins and particularly of W. B. Hardy, she was led to the long-sustained studies of swelling in colloidal systems, which when carried over to the 'structured' proteins in animal skins gained for her the firmly established international reputation as the authority on the chemistry of leather which she held at her death on November 21, 1946. Thus, zoology in Part II of the Tripos followed by the M.A.(Cantab.), research in physiology followed by the D.Sc.(LoncL), after some interval the fellowship of the Institute of Chemistry in 1922, authorship of a standard work, “Chemistry of the Proteins” (first edit., 1926 ; second, with Ann Shore, 1938) and the directorship of the British Leather Manufacturers' Research Association (1927-46) are the signposts of an exceptional career.
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PICKARD, R. Dr. D. Jordan Lloyd. Nature 159, 190–191 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/159190a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/159190a0